Reading the Post-Apartheid City : Durbanite and Capetonian Literary Topographies in Selected Texts Beyond 2000
Moreillon, Olivier
Reading the Post-Apartheid City : Durbanite and Capetonian Literary Topographies in Selected Texts Beyond 2000 - Berlin/Germany Logos Verlag Berlin 2019 - 1 electronic resource (290 p.)
Open Access
This study analyses the representation of Durbanite and Capetonian urban spaces in the following selection of post-apartheid works: Mariam Akabor's ''Flat 9'', Rozena Maart's ''Rosa's District Six'', Johan van Wyk's ''Man Bitch'', K. Sello Duiker's ''Thirteen Cents'', Bridget McNulty's ''Strange Nervous Laughter'', and Lauren Beukes' ''Moxyland''. The focus lies on the interrelatedness of shifting post-apartheid subjectivities and urban space (and place) in these literary works. The analysis not only grants access to different ‘new voices` of post-apartheid literature, it also sheds light on the perception of South African history, urban geography, and cultural topography – essentially, on real as well as imagined South African urban spaces – as the literary representations of city-spaces become archives of cultural transformation processes; a gateway to the understanding of the developments and changes of, and within, the two cities in question.
Creative Commons
English
4830 9783832548308
10.30819/4830 doi
Literature & literary studies
Literary studies: post-colonial literature
Südafrika Postapartheid Literatur Postkoloniale Literatur Raumtheorie Identität
Reading the Post-Apartheid City : Durbanite and Capetonian Literary Topographies in Selected Texts Beyond 2000 - Berlin/Germany Logos Verlag Berlin 2019 - 1 electronic resource (290 p.)
Open Access
This study analyses the representation of Durbanite and Capetonian urban spaces in the following selection of post-apartheid works: Mariam Akabor's ''Flat 9'', Rozena Maart's ''Rosa's District Six'', Johan van Wyk's ''Man Bitch'', K. Sello Duiker's ''Thirteen Cents'', Bridget McNulty's ''Strange Nervous Laughter'', and Lauren Beukes' ''Moxyland''. The focus lies on the interrelatedness of shifting post-apartheid subjectivities and urban space (and place) in these literary works. The analysis not only grants access to different ‘new voices` of post-apartheid literature, it also sheds light on the perception of South African history, urban geography, and cultural topography – essentially, on real as well as imagined South African urban spaces – as the literary representations of city-spaces become archives of cultural transformation processes; a gateway to the understanding of the developments and changes of, and within, the two cities in question.
Creative Commons
English
4830 9783832548308
10.30819/4830 doi
Literature & literary studies
Literary studies: post-colonial literature
Südafrika Postapartheid Literatur Postkoloniale Literatur Raumtheorie Identität