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Fictioning Namibia as a Space of Desire An Excursion into the Literary Space of Namibia During Colonialism, Apartheid and th / Renzo Baas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baas, Renzo, author.
- Series:
- Basel Southern Africa studies ; 12.
- Basel Southern Africa studies ; 12
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Space and time in literature.
- Racism in literature.
- Imperialism in literature.
- Colonies in literature.
- Comparative literature--Themes, motives.
- Comparative literature.
- Namibia--In literature.
- Namibia.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (296 pages)
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
- Summary:
- Modern-day Namibian history has largely been shaped by three major eras: German colonial rule, South African apartheid occupation, and the Liberation Struggle. It was, however, not only military conquest that laid the cornerstone for the colony, but also how the colony was imagined, the "dream" of this colony. As a tool of discursive worldmaking, literature has played a major role in providing a framework in which to "dream" Namibia, first from outside its borders, and then from within. In Fictioning Namibia as a Space of Desire, Renzo Baas employs Henri Lefebvre's city-countryside dialectic and reworks it in order to uncover how fictional texts played an integral part in the violent acquisition of a foreign territory. Through the production of myths around whiteness, German and South African authors designed a literary space in which control, destruction, and the dehumanisation of African peoples are understood as a natural order, one that is dictated by history and its linear continuation. These European texts are offset by Namibia's first novel by an African, offering a counter-narrative to the colonial invention that was (German) South West Africa.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Social and literary space
- The colonial era : war, toil, and diamonds
- The apartheid era : the trust in maps and guns
- The Namibian moment : learning to sing
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-282) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9783906927091
- 3906927091
- OCLC:
- 1090496733
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