ISBN: 9780195112863

Apartheid and Beyond is a major contribution to the study of South African literary culture. It offers elegant readings of Coetzee, Gordimer, Fugard, Tlali, Dike, Magona, and Mda, focusin… Mehr…

Apartheid and Beyond is a major contribution to the study of South African literary culture. It offers elegant readings of Coetzee, Gordimer, Fugard, Tlali, Dike, Magona, and Mda, focusing on the intimate relationship between place, subjectivity, and literary form revealed in their work. Italso explores the way apartheid functioned in its day-to-day operations as a geographical system of control, exerting its power through such spatial mechanisms as residential segregation, bantustans, passes, and prisons. Though in the first instance concerned with literary texts, Apartheid andBeyond also meditates on crucial historical processes like colonial occupation, the creation of black townships, migration, forced removals, the emergence of informal settlements, the gradual integration of white cities, and efforts at land reform. Cumulatively, the six essays in this book tell thestory of the transformation of apartheid''s landscapes of oppression into the more ambiguous landscapes of contemporary South Africa: landscapes of tourism and leisure, of crime and privatized security, of uncontrolled urbanization and persistent poverty. Barnard''s methodologically eclectic writingdraws on the work of major European and U. S. theorists like Foucault, De Certeau, and Jameson, as well as important African intellectuals like Mbembe, Ramphele, and Ndebele. It also takes literary figures seriously as theorists of space in their own right. Apartheid and Beyond is both an innovativeaccount of an important body of politically-inflected literature and an imaginative reflection on the socio-spatial aspects of the transition from apartheid to democracy. | Apartheid And Beyond by Rita Barnard Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > Literary Criticism > Criticism & Theory P10106, Rita Barnard<

2006, ISBN: 9780195112863

Apartheid may have met its political end five years ago and its symptoms may be in rapid remission, but there is no question that forty-two years of institutionalized social division have… Mehr…

Apartheid may have met its political end five years ago and its symptoms may be in rapid remission, but there is no question that forty-two years of institutionalized social division have left deep and presumably indelible scars on the nation's cultural sensibility as well as its social past.Rita Barnard's new book considers the political use of space (for apartheid, Afrikaans for 'separateness,' is nothing if not fraught with the implications of 'keeping one's place'), as expressed in literature of the apartheid era. Her work joins the efforts of a pantheon of cultural theorists fromFoucault to Homi Bhabha to Edward Said in scrutinizing the intimate workings of social space, power, writing, and resistance. From the racially segregated townships to the commuter trains loaded with political, economic, and human freight, Barnard shows how everyday facets of life in South Africatake on racial overtones of overpowering dimensions, and how fiction acts at once as a conspirator and a corrective. Drawing evidence from the works of South Africa's most celebrated contemporary writers--J.M. Coetzee, Athol Fugard, Nadine Gordimer, and others--Barnard sets up a powerful theory thatstresses the centrality of physical place to literary, political, and imaginative dominions. Buch (fremdspr.) Rita Barnard gebundene Ausgabe, Oxford University Press, 01.11.2006, Oxford University Press, 2006<

2006, ISBN: 9780195112863

Apartheid may have met its political end five years ago and its symptoms may be in rapid remission, but there is no question that forty-two years of institutionalized social division have… Mehr…

Apartheid may have met its political end five years ago and its symptoms may be in rapid remission, but there is no question that forty-two years of institutionalized social division have left deep and presumably indelible scars on the nation's cultural sensibility as well as its social past.Rita Barnard's new book considers the political use of space (for apartheid, Afrikaans for 'separateness,' is nothing if not fraught with the implications of 'keeping one's place'), as expressed in literature of the apartheid era. Her work joins the efforts of a pantheon of cultural theorists fromFoucault to Homi Bhabha to Edward Said in scrutinizing the intimate workings of social space, power, writing, and resistance. From the racially segregated townships to the commuter trains loaded with political, economic, and human freight, Barnard shows how everyday facets of life in South Africatake on racial overtones of overpowering dimensions, and how fiction acts at once as a conspirator and a corrective. Drawing evidence from the works of South Africa's most celebrated contemporary writers--J.M. Coetzee, Athol Fugard, Nadine Gordimer, and others--Barnard sets up a powerful theory thatstresses the centrality of physical place to literary, political, and imaginative dominions. Buch (fremdspr.) Rita Barnard gebundene Ausgabe, Oxford University Press, 01.11.2006, Oxford University Press, 2006<

2006, ISBN: 9780195112863

Apartheid may have met its political end five years ago and its symptoms may be in rapid remission, but there is no question that forty-two years of institutionalized social division have… Mehr…

Apartheid may have met its political end five years ago and its symptoms may be in rapid remission, but there is no question that forty-two years of institutionalized social division have left deep and presumably indelible scars on the nation's cultural sensibility as well as its social past.Rita Barnard's new book considers the political use of space (for apartheid, Afrikaans for 'separateness,' is nothing if not fraught with the implications of 'keeping one's place'), as expressed in literature of the apartheid era. Her work joins the efforts of a pantheon of cultural theorists fromFoucault to Homi Bhabha to Edward Said in scrutinizing the intimate workings of social space, power, writing, and resistance. From the racially segregated townships to the commuter trains loaded with political, economic, and human freight, Barnard shows how everyday facets of life in South Africatake on racial overtones of overpowering dimensions, and how fiction acts at once as a conspirator and a corrective. Drawing evidence from the works of South Africa's most celebrated contemporary writers--J.M. Coetzee, Athol Fugard, Nadine Gordimer, and others--Barnard sets up a powerful theory thatstresses the centrality of physical place to literary, political, and imaginative dominions. Buch (fremdspr.) gebundene Ausgabe, Oxford University Press, 01.11.2006, Oxford University Press, 2006<

2006, ISBN: 9780195112863

South African Writers and the Politics of Place, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: Oxford University Press Inc], Oxford University Press Inc, 2006