Reading Loss : Post-Apartheid Melancholia in Contemporary South African Novels

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Tác giả: Danyela Demir

Ngôn ngữ: eng

ISBN-13: 978-3832547943

Ký hiệu phân loại: 823.9209353 English fiction

Thông tin xuất bản: Berlin, Germany : Logos Verlag Berlin, 2019

Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (214 p.)

Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở

ID: 227503

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.
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