The Worlding of the South African Novel - Spaces of Transition (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)

The Worlding of the South African Novel develops from something of a paradox: that despite momentous political transition from apartheid to democracy, little in South Africa's socio-economic reality has actually changed. Poyner discusses how the contemporary South African novel engages with this reality. In forms of literary experiment, the novels open up intellectual spaces shaping or contesting the idea of the "new South Africa". The mediatising of truth at the TRC hearings, how best to deal with a spectacular yet covert past, the shaping for "unimagined communities" of an inclusive public sphere, HIV/AIDS as the preeminent site testing capitalist modernity, white anxieties about land reform, disease as environmental injustice and the fostering of an enabling restorative cultural memory: Poyner argues that through these key nodes of intellectual thought, the novels speak to recent debates on world-literature to register the "shock" of an uneven modernity produced by a capitalist world economy.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	New Comparisons in World Literature
Release date:	August 2021
First published:	2020
Authors:	Jane Poyner
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	312
Edition:	1st ed. 2020
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-041939-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Promotions
LSN:	3-03-041939-8
Barcode:	9783030419394

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