South African literature after the Truth Commission : mapping loss /
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| Author / Creator: | Graham, Shane (Shane Dwight) |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. |
| Description: | ix, 235 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | South African literature -- History and criticism. South African literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7780042 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Mapping Loss
- Part 1. Spaces of Truth-Telling: The TRC and Post-Apartheid Literatures of Memory
- Introduction
- 1.1. The Calcification of Memory: The Story I Am about to Tell and He Left Quietly
- 1.2. A Theater of Displacement: Ubu and the Truth Commission
- 1.3. The Lie Where the Truth Is Closest: Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull
- 1.4. Words That Look Like Acts: Ingrid de Kok's Transfer and Terrestrial Things
- 1.5. Irredeemable Blood, Irretrievable Loss: Sindiwe Magona's Mother to Mother
- Conclusion
- Part 2. Post-Apartheid Urban Spaces
- Introduction
- 2.1. Peace through Amnesia: Achmat Dangor's Bitter Fruit
- 2.2. The City Dissected: Ivan Vladislavic's The Exploded View
- 2.3. Linguistic Trips: Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to Our Hillbrow
- 2.4. Peripatetic Mapping: K. Sello Duiker's The Quiet Violence of Dreams
- 2.5. Excavating the City: Aziz Hassim's The Lotus People
- Conclusion
- Part 3. Excavations and the Memory of Landscapes
- Introduction
- 3.1. A Map of Echoes: Anne Landsman's The Devil's Chimney
- 3.2. Buried Footprints: Zoëet; Wicomb's David's Story
- 3.3. Burdened by the Scars of History: Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness
- Conclusion
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
