Marta Fossati

The South African Short Story in English, 1920-2010 (eBook, ePUB)

When Aesthetics Meets Ethics

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Produktbeschreibung

Marta Fossati traces the development of the South African short story in English from the late 1920s to the first decade of the twenty-first century, examining its narratological characteristics, its dialogue between aesthetics and ethics, and its material print culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780198910992
• Artikelnr.: 72270745

Autorenporträt

Marta Fossati is Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Milan's Department of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Mediations. She holds a PhD from the University of Milan with a thesis on the South African short story in English, which she partially wrote during a visiting research period at Queen Mary University of London. Her research interests include South African literature, Postcolonialism, world literature, and, recently, Prison Shakespeare. She is a member of the Modern Language Association and the Research Network for Short Fiction Research, and an alumna of the Institute for World Literature.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Figures
* Introduction: 'Like the Flash of Fireflies'
* 1: Between The Sjambok and the Bantu World Fiction and Journalism in
Rolfes Dhlomo's Short Stories
* 2: Experimentalism in Herbert Dhlomo's Ten 'Unpublished' Short
Stories
* 3: Interlude: Dark Testament by Peter Abrahams
* 4: The 'Fabulous Decade': Realism and Literariness in the Short
Fiction by Can Themba and Alex La Guma
* 5: 'Eenheid and Apartheid': Unity and Difference in Mtutuzeli
Matshoba's and Ahmed Essop's Short-Story Cycles
* 6: Beyond South Africa and the Politics of Realism: The Textuality of
Reality in Zoë Wicomb's Two Short-Story Cycles
* Bibliography
* Index