Present imperfect : contemporary South African writing

This work asks how a selection of South African writers have responded to the period since the end of apartheid.

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Main Author: Van der Vlies, Andrew, 1974- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Edition: First edition.
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ISBN: 9780192512536
9780191835551
9780198793762
Physical Description: 1 online zdroj : ilustrace

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504 |a Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy a index 
505 0 |a Cover; Present Imperfect: Contemporary South African Writing; Copyright; Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction: No Time Like the Present; No-time and now-time; BAD FEELINGS AND HOPEFUL ORIENTATIONS; HISTORY, TRAGEDY, AND BLOCKED FUTURITY; OPEN ENDINGS, CLOSE READINGS; 1: On Being Stuck: Stasis and Situation Tragedy; Accidental attachments; A still life, still alive; New Era waiting; Situation vacant: on tragedy; 2: Bad Feelings in the Provinces of History; In no mood to take positions: autrebiography, affectlessness, apatheia, acedia. 
505 8 |a Portraits of the alienated artist manquéThe forestalled Bildungsroman; Politics in the provinces (I): the nonposition; Politics in the provinces (II): on irony; 3: Temporal Adoption, Novelistic Prosthesis; Prologue: Ideology and the archive; Adoption and cultural competency; Apartheid cyborgs and retentional prostheses; Provincial literatures and the temporality of World Literature in English; 4: Towards a Critical Nostalgia; Monumentalism, memorialization, and nostalgia; Angels of history; Walking backwards into the future; Sceptical salvage. 
505 8 |a Double Negative: memory, referentiality, relationality5: South Africa, Time or Place?; Queering the national family; Cosmopolitanism and cultural translation; On Intertextuality and responsibility; On intertextuality and return to the pays natal; Fiction as home-from-home; 6: Stasis Anxiety: On Contemporary Waithood; Black fictions of the present; Down and out in Newlands and Observatory; Stasis as Civil War; Anxiety, Repetition, Prophecy; Endnotes; NOTES TO PREFACE; NOTES TO INTRODUCTION; NOTES TO CHAPTER 1; NOTES TO CHAPTER 2; NOTES TO CHAPTER 3; NOTES TO CHAPTER 4; NOTES TO CHAPTER 5. 
505 8 |a NOTES TO CHAPTER 6Bibliography; Archival Sources; Digital Resources; Published Sources; Index. 
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