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1 online resource (372 pages) |
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Illustrations fall between pages 160 and 161; Acknowledgements; Introduction Diaspora and Identity in South African Fiction; Chapter 1 The Colonial Diaspora: Karel Schoeman, Another Country; Chapter 2 Portraits of Afrikaners: Elsa Joubert, Isobelle's Journey; Chapter 3 Black and White in Colour: Zoë Wicomb, David's Story and Playing in the Light; Chapter 4 Mapping the Indian Diaspora: Aziz Hassim, The Lotus People and Revenge of Kali; Chapter 5 Picturing the African Diaspora: Patricia Schonstein Pinnock, Skyline |
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Chapter 6 A Nomad of the Middle World: Breyten Breytenbach, A Veil of Footsteps (Memoir of a Nomadic Fictional Character)Chapter 7 Performing the African Diaspora: Zakes Mda, Sometimes There is a Void and Cion; Chapter 8 An Uneasy Guest: J.M. Coetzee, Boyhood, Youth, Slow Man and Summertime; Chapter 9 Double Negatives: Exile and Homecoming: IvanVladislavic, Double Negative and Michiel Heyns, Lost Ground; Chapter 10 Diasporic Politics of Home: Nadine Gordimer, None to Accompany Me, The Pickup and No Time Like the Present |
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Chapter 11 Embracing Chaos: Njabulo S. Ndebele, The Cry of Winnie MandelaSelect Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
"South African identities, as they are represented in the contemporary South African novel, are not homogeneous, but fractured and often conflicted: African, Afrikaner, 'colored, ' English, and Indian. None can be regarded as rooted or pure, whatever essentialist claims the members of these various ethnic and cultural communities might want to make for them. All of them, this study argues, are deeply divided and have arisen, directly or indirectly, out of the experience of diasporic displacement, migration, and relocation, from the colonial, African, and Indian diasporas to present-day migrations into and out of South Africa, as well as diasporic dislocations within Africa. The book contains 20 works by 12 contemporary South African novelists - Breyten Breytenbach, J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Aziz Hassim, Michiel Heyns, Elsa Joubert, Zakes Mda, Njabulo S. Ndebele, Karel Schoeman, Patricia Schonstein Pinnock, Ivan Vladislavic, and Zoe Wicomb - and shows how diaspora is a dominant theme in contemporary South African fiction, and how the diasporic subject is a most recognizable figure."--Back cover |
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Print version record |
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South African fiction -- Criticism and interpretation
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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South Africans -- Migrations
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South Africans -- Race identity
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South Africans -- Ethnic identity
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African diaspora in literature.
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East Indian diaspora in literature.
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African diaspora in literature
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East Indian diaspora in literature
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Identity (Psychology) in literature
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South African fiction
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781869143459 |
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1869143450 |
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