South African Literature Beyond the Cold War

Popescu, Monica (EDT)

Palgrave Macmillan（2010/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 237 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780230617391
• DDC分類 820.9960904

Full Description

Contemporary South African literature reflects a fascination with Russian and Eastern European stories of revolution and transformation as well as resistance to state oppression. In this groundbreaking book, Monica Popescu studies the formative role played by an imaginary and real Eastern Europe in literature written during and after apartheid. Reading the end of apartheid against the fall of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe, she rethinks the genealogy and aims of postcolonial studies in the context both of the Cold War and of the various forms of colonial domination and resistance in South Africa.

Contents

Introduction: Eastern Europe in the South African Cultural Imaginary
Revolution and Transformation: Alex La Guma's Models of Decolonization
Interregnum and Narrative Confusion: Zoë Wicomb and the South African Historiography of the Early 1990s
Transition Intertexts: J. M. Coetzee and the Nineteenth-Century Russian Writers
Cultures in Translation: Ivan Vladislavic and the Itinerant Imagery of the 1990s Fiction
Nadine Gordimer and the End of Apartheid in a Global Perspective
Conclusion