Time and Alterity in South African Writing

André Brink, J.M. Coetzee, and Zakes Mda Revisited

AvPaulina Grzęda

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Del 18 i serien Modernity in Question

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Beskrivning

The Covid-19 pandemic has thrust us all into a warped, disjointed ‘coronatime,’ which has both uncontrollably accelerated, and interminably decelerated, or got frozen. Just like the pandemic, this book provides a chance to reevaluate neoliberalism’s temporal regimes of growth, decline, deceleration and acceleration. South Africa and its contemporary literature are a perfect background against which to think about temporality experimentally. Focusing on three South African authors, André Brink, J.M. Coetzee and Zakes Mda, the book examines contemporary South African revisioning of time and alterity. Through some of the previously unexplored texts, it studies what living in a post-conflict, post-revolutionary and highly traumatized society entails for one’s perception of time and otherness.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-10-22
Mått:148 x 210 x 0 mm
Vikt:491 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Modernity in Question
Antal sidor:326
Förlag:Peter Lang AG
ISBN:9783631863343

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Paulina Grzęda is Assistant Professor at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, Poland. She researches alternative perceptions of time in postcolonial cultures (with a special focus on Africa), historiography, cultural perceptions of otherness, representations of trauma in film and literature, as well as links between literature and psychotherapy. She is also a certified coach and an inquisitive traveller.

Innehållsförteckning

The Persistence of History and South African LiteratureAlterity, Time and De-temporalization of DifferenceMagical Realism and Temporalities of Post-apartheidTowards the Ethics of Alter(nat)ing Temporalities of Post-apartheid:Alterity and Time in Fiction by Zakes Mda and J.M. CoetzeeTrauma, Alterity and Time in South African Autobiographical WritingTrilogy of Fictionalized Memoirs by J.M. CoetzeeMemoirs by André Brink and Zakes Mda