Reading the post-apartheid city : Durbanite and Capetonian literary topographies in selected texts beyond 2000 / Olivier Moreillon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moreillon, Olivier, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns in literature.

Urbanization--South Africa.

Urbanization.

South Africa--Cape Town--Literature.

South Africa.

South Africa--Durban--Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Germany Logos Verlag Berlin 2019

Berlin, Gemany : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This study analyses the representation of Durbanite and Capetonian urban spaces in the following selection of post-apartheid works: Mariam Akabor's ''Flat 9'', Rozena Maart's ''Rosa's District Six'', Johan van Wyk's ''Man Bitch'', K. Sello Duiker's ''Thirteen Cents'', Bridget McNulty's ''Strange Nervous Laughter'', and Lauren Beukes' ''Moxyland''. The focus lies on the interrelatedness of shifting post-apartheid subjectivities and urban space (and place) in these literary works. The analysis not only grants access to different ‘new voices` of post-apartheid literature, it also sheds light on the perception of South African history, urban geography, and cultural topography – essentially, on real as well as imagined South African urban spaces – as the literary representations of city-spaces become archives of cultural transformation processes; a gateway to the understanding of the developments and changes of, and within, the two cities in question.

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 23, 2021.

Other Format:

Print version:

OCLC:

1226297507

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.30819/4830

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access