Trauma, Memory, and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel : Essays.
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| Author / Creator: | Mengel, Ewald. |
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2012. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (419 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cross/Cultures - Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English ; v. 153 Cross/Cultures - Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11168794 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; TRAUMA: THEORIES AND EXPERIENCES; Trauma and the Turn to Affect; Permanent Risk: When Crisis Defines a Nation's Writing; Affecting Politics: Post-Apartheid Fiction and the Limits of Trauma; Trauma in the Postcolony: Towards a New Theoretical Approach; It is in the Blood: Trauma and Memory in the South African Novel; The Ethics and Morality of Witnessing: On the Politics of Antjie Krog (Samuel's) Country of My Skull; TRAUMA AND LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS; Trauma and Genre in the Contemporary South African Novel.
- 'To speak of this you would need the tongue of a god': On Representing the Trauma of Township ViolenceRethinking Religion in a Time of Trauma; Re-Examining Apartheid Brokenness: To Every Birth Its Blood as a Literary Testament; Disgrace, Historical Trauma, and the Extreme Edge of Civility; Forced Removals as Sites/Sights of Historical Trauma in South African Writing of the 1980s and 1990s; TRAUMA, MEMORY, AND HISTORY; Trauma Refracted: J.M. Coetzee's Summertime; 'Is not the truth the truth?': The Political and the Personal in the Writings of Gillian Slovo and Jann Turner.
- 'Nothing like this can be your fault at your age': Trauma-Narrative and the Politics of Self-Accusation in The Innocence of Roast ChickenOut of the Mouths: Voices of Children in Contemporary South African Literature; Replaying Trauma with a Difference: Zoë Wicomb's Dialogic Aesthetic; Trauma, Memory, and History in Marlene van Niekerk's The Way of the Women; Notes on Contributors; Index.