Reading loss : : post-apartheid melancholia in contemporary South African novels / / Danyela Demir.
This book focuses on six post-apartheid novels, namely Zo¨e Wicomb's ''Playing in the Light'' (2006), Marlene van Niekerk's ''Agaat'' (2004/2007), André Brink's ''Devil's Valley'' (1998), Sarah Penny's ''T...
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Demir, Danyela, author. Reading loss : post-apartheid melancholia in contemporary South African novels / Danyela Demir. Berlin/Germany Logos Verlag Berlin 2019 Berlin, Germany : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH, [2019] ©2019 1 online resource (iv, 212 pages) : digital file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file rda Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form. In English. Description based on e-publication, viewed on July 22, 2021. This book focuses on six post-apartheid novels, namely Zo¨e Wicomb's ''Playing in the Light'' (2006), Marlene van Niekerk's ''Agaat'' (2004/2007), André Brink's ''Devil's Valley'' (1998), Sarah Penny's ''The Beneficiaries'' (2002), K Sello Duiker's ''Thirteen Cents'' (2000), and Kgebetli Moele's ''Room 207'' (2006). It aims at highlighting different manifestations of melancholia that are visible in these texts in particular and in post-apartheid writing more generally. Mainly based on Sigmund Freud's, Anne Cheng's, and Paul Gilroy's concepts of melancholia, most novels are regarded as melancholic counter-narratives to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission's attempt to initiate a nationwide process of mourning with the aim of subsequent closure of the apartheid past. Moreover, concepts of melancholia prove particularly useful in order to analyse issues such as complicity, uncritical whiteness, crises of identity, forms of resistance, and intergenerational memory. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode Unrestricted online access Melancholy in literature South Africa. Postcolonialism in literature South Africa. Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature South Africa. South African fiction. Südafrika Postapartheid Literatur Postkoloniale Literatur Truth and Reconciliation Commission Melancholie South Africa In literature. Print version: 3832547940 |
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