Crossing borders, dissolving boundaries [electronic resource] / edited by Hein Viljoen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Viljoen, Hein.

Series:

Cross/cultures ; 157.

Cross/cultures : readings in the post/colonial literatures in English, 0924-1426 ; 157

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boundaries in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Borders separate but also connect self and other, and literary texts not only enact these bordering processes, but form part of such processes. This book gestures towards a borderless world, stepping, as it were, with thousand-mile boots from south to north (even across the Atlantic), from South Africa to Scandinavia. It also shows how literary texts model and remodel borders and bordering processes in rich and meaningful local contexts. The essays assembled here analyse the crossing and negotiation of borders and boundaries in works by Nadine Gordimer, Ingrid Winterbach, Deneys Reitz, Janet Suzman, Marlene van Niekerk, A.S. Byatt, Thomas Harris, Frank A. Jenssen, Eben Venter, Antjie Krog, and others under different signs or conceptual points of attraction. These signs include a spiritual turn, eventfulness, self-understanding, ethnic and linguistic mobilization, performative chronotopes, the grotesque, the carceral, the rhetorical, and the interstitial. Contributors: Ileana Dimitriu, Heilna du Plooy, John Gouws, Anne Heith, Lida Krüger, Susan Meyer, Adéle Nel, Ellen Rees, Johan Schimanski, Tony Ullyatt, Phil van Schalkwyk, Hein Viljoen.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Representing the Unpresentable: Between the Secular and the Spiritual in Gordimer’s Post-Apartheid Fiction / Ileana Dimitriu

Narrative Dynamics and Boundaries: The Undermining of Event and Eventfulness in The Book of Happenstance by Ingrid Winterbach / Heilna Du Plooy

Deneys Reitz and the Bounds of Self-Understanding / John Gouws

Challenging and Negotiating National Borders: Sámi and Tornedalian AlterNative Literary History / Anne Heith

The Visual Representation of the Boundary Between Past and Present: Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard and Suzman’s The Free State / Lida Krüger

Earth as Home: Nature and Refuges/Living Spaces in Some Afrikaans Narratives / Susan Meyer

Borders and Abjection in Triomf / Adéle Nel

Body, Corpus, and Corpse: Delineating Henrik Ibsen in A.S. Byatt’s The Biographer’s Tale / Ellen Rees

Pronouncing it the Porder: Ascribing Aesthetic Values to External and Internal National Borders in Frank A. Jenssen’s The Salt Bin / Johan Schimanski

The Normal and the Carceral: Boundaries in Thomas Harris’s The Silence of the Lambs / Tony Ullyatt

The Aid of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of AIDS: Eben Venter’s Ek stamel ek sterwe / Phil Van Schalkwyk

Navigating the Interstitial: Boundaries in Lady Anne by Antjie Krog / Hein Viljoen

Notes on the Contributors.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

94-012-0908-1

OCLC:

845255835

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401209083 DOI