Apartheid and beyond : South African writers and the politics of place
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Apartheid and beyond : South African writers and the politics of place
Oxford University Press, 2012
- : pbk
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"First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 2012"--T.p. verso
Originally published: 2007
Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-211) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Apartheid and Beyond offers trenchant, historically sensitive readings of writings by Coetzee, Gordimer, Fugard, Tlali, Dike, Magona, and Mda, focusing on the intimate relationship between place, subjectivity, and literary form. It also explores the way apartheid functioned in its day-to-day operations as a geographical system of control, exerting its power through such spatial mechanisms as residential segregation, bantustans, passes, and prisons.
Throughout the study, Rita Barnard provides historical context by highlighting key events such as colonial occupation, the creation of black townships, migration, forced removals, the emergence of informal settlements, and the gradual integration of white cities. Apartheid and Beyond is both an innovative account of
an important body of politically inflected literature and an imaginative reflection on the socio-spatial aspects of the transition from apartheid to democracy.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Dream Topographies
- 2. Leaving the House of the White Race
- 3. Of Trespassers and Trash
- 4. A Man's Scenery
- 5. Beyond the Tyranny of Place
- 6. The Location of Post-Apartheid Culture
- Editions Cited
- Notes
- Index
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