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Apartheid And Beyond - South African Writers And The Politics Of Place (Hardcover)
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Apartheid And Beyond - South African Writers And The Politics Of Place (Hardcover)
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Apartheid and Beyond is a major contribution to the study of South
African literary culture. It offers elegant readings of Coetzee,
Gordimer, Fugard, Tlali, Dike, Magona, and Mda, focusing on the
intimate relationship between place, subjectivity, and literary
form revealed in their work. It also explores the way apartheid
functioned in its day-to-day operations as a geographical system of
control, exerting its power through such spatial mechanisms as
residential segregation, bantustans, passes, and prisons. Though in
the first instance concerned with literary texts, Apartheid and
Beyond also meditates on crucial historical processes like colonial
occupation, the creation of black townships, migration, forced
removals, the emergence of informal settlements, the gradual
integration of white cities, and efforts at land reform.
Cumulatively, the six essays in this book tell the story of the
transformation of apartheid's landscapes of oppression into the
more ambiguous landscapes of contemporary South Africa: landscapes
of tourism and leisure, of crime and privatized security, of
uncontrolled urbanization and persistent poverty. Barnard's
methodologically eclectic writing draws on the work of major
European and U.S. theorists like Foucault, De Certeau, and Jameson,
as well as important African intellectuals like Mbembe, Ramphele,
and Ndebele. It also takes literary figures seriously as theorists
of space in their own right. Apartheid and Beyond is both an
innovative account of an important body of politically-inflected
literature and an imaginative reflection on the socio-spatial
aspects of the transition from apartheid to democracy.
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