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Reading loss : post-apartheid melancholia in contemporary South African novels / Danyela Demir.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Demir, Danyela, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Melancholy in literature--South Africa.
- Melancholy in literature.
- Postcolonialism in literature--South Africa.
- Postcolonialism in literature.
- Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature--South Africa.
- Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
- South African fiction.
- South Africa--In literature.
- South Africa.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (iv, 212 pages) : digital file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin/Germany Logos Verlag Berlin 2019
- Berlin, Germany : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- This book focuses on six post-apartheid novels, namely Zo¨e Wicomb's ''Playing in the Light'' (2006), Marlene van Niekerk's ''Agaat'' (2004/2007), André Brink's ''Devil's Valley'' (1998), Sarah Penny's ''The Beneficiaries'' (2002), K Sello Duiker's ''Thirteen Cents'' (2000), and Kgebetli Moele's ''Room 207'' (2006). It aims at highlighting different manifestations of melancholia that are visible in these texts in particular and in post-apartheid writing more generally. Mainly based on Sigmund Freud's, Anne Cheng's, and Paul Gilroy's concepts of melancholia, most novels are regarded as melancholic counter-narratives to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission's attempt to initiate a nationwide process of mourning with the aim of subsequent closure of the apartheid past. Moreover, concepts of melancholia prove particularly useful in order to analyse issues such as complicity, uncritical whiteness, crises of identity, forms of resistance, and intergenerational memory.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
- Description based on e-publication, viewed on July 22, 2021.
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- Publisher Number:
- https://doi.org/10.30819/4794
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