Andrew van der Vlies (Reader in Global Anglophone Literature and Th

Present Imperfect

Contemporary South African Writing

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Produktbeschreibung

This book asks how a selection of South African writers have responded to the period since the end of apartheid.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 145mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9780198793762
• ISBN-10: 0198793766
• Artikelnr.: 47870773

Autorenporträt

Andrew van der Vlies is Reader in Global Anglophone Literature and Theory in the Department of English at Queen Mary University of London and Extraordinary Associate Professor at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Born and raised in South Africa, he was educated at Rhodes University and completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford. He is the author of South African Textual Cultures, editor of Print, Text, and Book Cultures in South Africa and of the journal Safundi, and contributor to a number of important collections about South African and African literature and culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: No Time Like the Present
1: On Being Stuck: Stasis and Situation Tragedy
2: Bad Feelings in the Provinces of History
3: Temporal Adoption, Novelistic Prosthesis
4: Towards a Critical Nostalgia
5: South Africa, Time or Place?
6: Stasis Anxiety: On Contemporary Waithood