Storyscapes

South African Perspectives on Literature, Space and Identity

202 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In Storyscapes we listen carefully to what South African writers reveal about themselves and their relations to South African space since the democratic transition of 1994. One main focus is the power of stories to uncover contradictory processes and investments of identity and to point readers toward a more meaningful life. Another main focus is the complexities of the post-colonial understanding of South African land, landscape, and space. Space in relation to race, class, and gender identity figures prominently in analyses and comparisons of diverse South African texts, such as Breyten Breytenbach’s Dog Heart, André Brink’s Imaginings of Sand, as well as the important South African subgenre of the farm novel. Questions of black or hybrid identity are highlighted by confronting older texts with new ones by black and women writers such as A.H.M. Scholtz and E.K.M. Dido. These texts – and a number of Afrikaans texts that are less well-known in the English-speaking world – are set in the wider frameworks of postcolonial criticism and global issues of cultural identity.

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein 1900 bis 2000
• ISBN: 9780820467894
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.03.2004
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York
• Band herausgegeben von: Hein Viljoen, Chris N. Van der Merwe