The Short Story after Apartheid : Thinking with Form in South African Literature
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| Title: | The Short Story after Apartheid : Thinking with Form in South African Literature |
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| Description: | Honourable Mention in the 2023 British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies Monograph Prize The Short Story after Apartheid offers the first major study of the anglophone short story in South Africa since apartheid's end. By focusing on the short story this book complicates models of South African literature dominated by the novel and contributes to a much-needed generic and formalist turn in postcolonial studies. Literary texts are sites of productive struggle between formal and extra-formal concerns, and these brief, fragmentary, elliptical, formally innovative stories offer perspectives that reframe or revise important concerns of post-apartheid literature: the aesthetics of engaged writing, the politics of the past, class and race, the legacies of violence, and the struggle over the land. Through an analysis of key texts from the period by Nadine Gordimer, Ivan Vladislavić, Zoë Wicomb, Phaswane Mpe, and Henrietta Rose-Innes, this book assesses the place of the short story in post-apartheid writing and develops a fuller model of how artworks allow and disallow forms of social thought. |
| Authors: | Graham K. Riach |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | South African fiction (English)--21st century--History and criticism, South African fiction (English)--20th century--History and criticism, Short stories, South African (English)--History and criticism, Apartheid in literature |
| Categories: | LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / Short Stories, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Honourable Mention in the 2023 British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies Monograph Prize The Short Story after Apartheid offers the first major study of the anglophone short story in South Africa since apartheid's end. By focusing on the short story this book complicates models of South African literature dominated by the novel and contributes to a much-needed generic and formalist turn in postcolonial studies. Literary texts are sites of productive struggle between formal and extra-formal concerns, and these brief, fragmentary, elliptical, formally innovative stories offer perspectives that reframe or revise important concerns of post-apartheid literature: the aesthetics of engaged writing, the politics of the past, class and race, the legacies of violence, and the struggle over the land. Through an analysis of key texts from the period by Nadine Gordimer, Ivan Vladislavić, Zoë Wicomb, Phaswane Mpe, and Henrietta Rose-Innes, this book assesses the place of the short story in post-apartheid writing and develops a fuller model of how artworks allow and disallow forms of social thought. |
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| ISBN: | 9781837644704 9781805967040 9781835533932 9781837644971 |
