Across the threshold
Subtitle: explorations of liminality in literature
By: edited by Chris N. van der Merwe, Hein Viljoen.
Contributors: Van der Merwe, C. N.; Viljoen, Hein.
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781433100024
Subjects: South African literature (English) -- History and criticism; Afrikaans literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Liminality in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Interfaces and liminal spaces: survival and regeneration in Ingrid Winterbach's Niggie (Cousin) / Heilna du Plooy; title: Liminal spaces and imaginary places in The bone people by Keri Hulme and The folly by Ivan Vladislavic / Marita Wenzel; title: From the cauldron of colored experiences : liminality and elusive communitas in four novels by South African colored writers / Denis-Constant Martin; title: The story of the absent feet : a narrative of revealing and concealing / Chris N. van der Merwe; title: Diotima and the matrixial transference : psychoanalytical encounter-event as pregnancy in beauty / Bracha L. Ettinger; title: The Africa they knew : South African poetry in international context : the case of Roy Campbell and William Plomer / Phil van Schalkwyk; title: "Life?" : modernism and liminality in Douglas Livingstone's A littoral zone / Etienne Terblanche; title: The liminal space between the species in Peter Hoeg's The woman and the ape / Naama Harel; title: Journeys from the liminal to the sacred in the interior of South Africa / Hein Viljoen; title: Subverting the pastoral : the transcendence of space and place in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace / Susan Smit-Marais and Marita Wenzel; title: The poet in transit : travel poems and liminality in Lykdigte (Elegies) and Ruggespraak (Consultation) by Joan Hambidge / Adele Nel; title: Writing takes place in wrestling the self down : strategies of reconciliation in Kleur kom nooit alleen nie (Color never comes on its own) by Antjie Krog / Marlies Taljard.