Trauma, memory, and narrative in the contemporary South African novel : : essays / / edited by Ewald Mengel and Michela Borzaga.

• Superior document: Cross/cultures ; 153
• TeilnehmendeR: Mengel, Ewald, 1950-; Borzaga, Michela, 1977-
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Cross/Cultures 153.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (419 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The contributions to this volume probe the complex relationship of trauma, memory, and narrative. By looking at the South African situation through the lens of trauma, they make clear how the psychic deformations and injuries left behind by racism and colonialism cannot be mended by material reparat...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Trauma and the Turn to Affect / Ruth Leys
• Permanent Risk: When Crisis Defines a Nation’s Writing / Elleke Boehmer
• Affecting Politics: Post-Apartheid Fiction and the Limits of Trauma / Vilashini Cooppan
• Trauma in the Postcolony: Towards a New Theoretical Approach / Michela Borzaga
• It is in the Blood: Trauma and Memory in the South African Novel / Sindiwe Magona
• The Ethics and Morality of Witnessing: On the Politics of Antjie Krog (Samuel’s) Country of My Skull / Yazir Henry
• Trauma and Genre in the Contemporary South African Novel / Ewald Mengel
• “To speak of this you would need the tongue of a god”: On Representing the Trauma of Township Violence / Derek Attridge
• Rethinking Religion in a Time of Trauma / Chris N. van der Merwe
• Re-Examining Apartheid Brokenness: To Every Birth Its Blood1 as a Literary Testament / Annie Gagiano
• Disgrace, Historical Trauma, and the Extreme Edge of Civility / Tlhalo Sam Raditlhalo
• Forced Removals as Sites/Sights of Historical Trauma in South African Writings of the 1980s and 1990s / Carmen Concilio
• Trauma Refracted: J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime / David Attwell
• “Is not the truth the truth?”: The Political and the Personal in the Writings of Gillian Slovo and Jann Turner / Geoffrey V. Davis
• “Nothing like this can be your fault at your age”: Trauma-Narrative and the Politics of Self-Accusation in The Innocence of Roast Chicken / Jochen Petzold
• Out of the Mouths: Voices of Children in Contemporary South African Literature / Susan Mann
• Replaying Trauma with a Difference: Zoë Wicomb’s Dialogic Aesthetic / Michael Meyer
• Trauma, Memory, and History in Marlene van Niekerk’s The Way of the Women / Sue Kossew
• Notes on Contributors
• Index.