Refractive realisms : literature, culture and the South African township / Megan Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Megan, 1979- author.

Series:

Transdisciplinary Souths

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South African literature (English)--History and criticism.

South African literature (English).

South African literature--21st century--History and criticism.

South African literature.

Literature and society--South Africa--History--21st century.

Literature and society.

Post-apartheid era--South Africa--In literature.

Post-apartheid era.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

xii, 155 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.

Summary:

"By positioning the "township" as the lens to examine the South African canon, the book undertakes a reorientation towards a black creative archive that surfaces forms of literary and cultural expression that have been overlooked. This lens is focalized through discussions that engage a variety of textual and cultural forms, concentrating on how they reshape networks of meaning that have disregarded black South Africans. To forge an optic that can be brought to bear on the changing spaces of the township and beyond, the volume weaves together narratives that take the reader through persuasive depictions of township life and its flexible identities, the failures of post-apartheid, possibilities that emerge from the ruins of historical injustice, practices of commodity consumption, and even limits of race and gender discourses that aligns with belonging or non-belonging to township geographies. An incisive read on the literary and cultural forms of the 21st century South African township, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literary studies, identity politics, cultural studies, ethnicity and race, sociology, and African Studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Jones, Megan, 1979- Refractive realisms

ISBN:

9781032560830

1032560835

9781032942285

1032942282

OCLC:

1452294844