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- 008 161027s2017 enk b 001 0 eng c
- 020 __ |a 9780198793762 (hardcover)
- 020 __ |a 0198793766 (hardcover)
- 040 __ |a ERASA |b eng |c ERASA |e rda |d BDX |d NLE |d OCLCO |d INU |d OCLCF |d CHVBK |d OCLCO |d ZWZ |d STF |d OCLCA |d GUA |d DLC
- 050 00 |a PR9359.6 |b .V36 2017
- 100 1_ |a Van der Vlies, Andrew, |d 1974- |e author.
- 245 10 |a Present imperfect : |b contemporary South African writing / |c Andrew van der Vlies.
- 264 _1 |a Oxford : |b Oxford University Press |c 2017.
- 300 __ |a xvii, 245 pages ; |c 22 cm
- 336 __ |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent
- 337 __ |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia
- 338 __ |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier
- 504 __ |a Includes bibliographical references (pages xiv-xv, 173-236) and index.
- 520 __ |a "Present Imperfect asks how South African writers have responded to the end of apartheid, to the hopes that attended the birth of the 'new' nation in 1994, and to the inevitable disappointments that have followed. The first full-length study of affect in South Africa's literature, it understands 'disappointment' both as a description of bad feeling and as naming a missed appointment with all that was promised by the anti-colonial and anti-apartheid Struggle (a dis-appointment). Attending to contemporary writers' treatment of temporality, genre, and form, it considers a range of negative feelings that are also experiences of temporal disjuncture--including stasis, impasse, boredom, disaffection, and nostalgia. Present Imperfect offers close readings of work by a range of writers--some known to international Anglophone readers including J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Ivan Vladislavic, and Zoe Wicomb, some slightly less well-known including Afrikaans-language novelists Marlene van Niekerk and Ingrid Winterbach, and others from a new generation including Songeziwe Mahlangu and Masande Ntshanga. The book addresses key questions in South African studies about the evolving character of the historical period in which the country now finds itself. It is also alert to wider critical and theoretical conversations, looking outward to make a case for the place of South African writing in global conversations, and mobilizing readings of writing marked in various ways as 'South African' in order to complicate the contours of World Literature as category, discipline, and pedagogy. It is thus also a book about the discontents of neoliberalism, the political energies of reading, and the fates of literature in our troubled present."-- |c Provided by publisher.
- 650 _0 |a South African literature |x History and criticism.
- 650 _0 |a Post-apartheid era |z Africa, Southern.
- 950 __ |a JHUL |b I478.06 |c V217