Storyscapes : South African perspectives on literature, space & identity

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In Storyscapes we listen carefully to what South African writers reveal about themselves and their relations to South African space since the democratic transition of 1994. One main focus is the power of stories to uncover contradictory processes and investments of identity and to point readers toward a more meaningful life. Another main focus is the complexities of the post-colonial understanding of South African land, landscape, and space. Space in relation to race, class, and gender identity figures prominently in analyses and comparisons of diverse South African texts, such as Breyten Breytenbach's Dog Heart, André Brink's Imaginings of Sand, as well as the important South African subgenre of the farm novel. Questions of black or hybrid identity are highlighted by confronting older texts with new ones by black and women writers such as A.H.M. Scholtz and E.K.M. Dido. These texts - and a number of Afrikaans texts that are less well-known in the English-speaking world - are set in the wider frameworks of postcolonial criticism and global issues of cultural identity.

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• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• ISBN: 0820467898
• Dimensions: 23 cm
• Extent: 200 S.
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Literaturangaben

Classification and Topics

• Keyword: Geschichte 1994-2003 ; Geschichte 1994-2003 ; Literatur ; Raum ; Zeit ; Literatur ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Südafrika ; Südafrika

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): New York, Washington, DC/Baltimore, Bern, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Brussels, Vienna, Oxford
• (who): Lang
• (when): 2004
• Contributor: Viljoen, Hein

Further information

• Table of contents: https://d-nb.info/970838174/04
• Rights: Bei diesem Objekt liegt nur das Inhaltsverzeichnis digital vor. Der Zugriff darauf ist unbeschränkt möglich.