South African literature's Russian soul : narrative forms of global isolation / Jeanne-Marie Jackson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Jeanne-Marie, author.

Series:

New horizons in contemporary writing

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South African literature--20th century--History and criticism.

South African literature.

Russian literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Russian literature.

Comparative literature--South African and Russian.

Comparative literature.

Comparative literature--Russian and South African.

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

ix, 263 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

Summary:

How do great moments in literary traditions arise from times of intense social and political upheaval? South African Literature's Russian Soul charts the interplay of narrative innovation and historical isolation in two of the world's most renowned non-European literatures. In this book, Jeanne-Marie Jackson demonstrates how Russian writing's 'Golden Age' in the troubled nineteenth-century has served as a model for South African writers both during and after apartheid. Exploring these two isolated literary cultures alongside each other, the book challenges the limits of current transnational methodologies in literary studies to argue for a more locally involved scale of literary enquiry with more truly global horizons. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Russia in the South African Imaginary 1

2 The Novel at a Crossroads; Gordimer, Tlali, and the Struggle for Form 31

3 Making Animals Work in Tolstoy, Coetzee, and Van Niekerk 83

4 Retreating Reality: Chekhov's South African Afterlives 131

5 Émigré Fiction and the Double-Bind of Home 171.

Notes:

Based on the author's dissertation, Yale University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472592996

1472592999

OCLC:

907184036