Nadine Gordimer and the rhetoric of otherness in post-apartheid South Africa / by Maria-Luiza Caraivan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caraivan, Maria-Luiza, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gordimer, Nadine--Criticism and interpretation.

Gordimer, Nadine.

Criticism and interpretation.

South Africa--In literature.

South Africa.

Other (Philosophy) in literature.

Literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

ix, 173 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

Summary:

Nadine Gordimer and the Rhetoric of Otherness in Post-Apartheid South Africa observes and examines several issues that are central to the South African writer's works: the uniqueness of terror in a difficult historical period, the desire to annihilate racial oppression, and, above all, the psychological alienation provoked by racism. The analysis also focuses on literary topics that are specific to Gordimer's post-Apartheid writings, such as the significance of multiculturalism, the status of writers, the banalisation of violence due to mass-media coverage, the reconciliation with a violent past, globalization and loss of cultural and national identity, economic exile, and migration. The book proposes in five chapters a journey into Nadine Gordimer's novels, short stories and non-fiction that presents the reader with a multifaceted Other who is no longer specific to postcolonial and multicultural South Africa but can be identified across the globe as alterity is redefined by globalization. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Victims of Memory: Forms of Exile 17

Edward Said's Theory of Exile 20

South African Immigrants, Exiles and Refugees 25

Chapter 2 New Otherness: The Arab World 48

The Self, the Body and the Other 52

The Theme of Identity and the Changing Other 55

From South Africa to the "Other" New World 67

Chapter 3 Black Femininity: The Search For African Female Identity in None to Accompany Me 77

Race Matters 82

Two Views on Feminism 86

Accommodation: Between Private and Public Spaces 100

Chapter 4 The Violence of Transition 104

The State of Violence and the Politics of Truth and Reconciliation 110

Contexts of Awful Events 120

The Black Elite: Hamilton Motsamai 127

Chapter 5 The Body at Risk: The Healthy Self and the Unhealthy Other 132

The Healthy Body 138

The Diseased Other 145.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1443810983

9781443810982

OCLC:

961008796

Publisher Number:

99970340788