South African literature beyond the Cold War
By: Monica Popescu.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230617391
Subjects: South African literature (English) -- History and criticism; Politics in literature; Decolonization in literature; Politics and literature -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century; Literature and society -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century; Europe, Eastern -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Eastern Europe in the South African cultural imaginary; title: Revolution and transformation : Alex La Guma's models of decolonization; title: Interregnum and narrative confusion : Zoë Wicomb and the South African historiography of the early 1990s; title: Transition intertexts : J. M. Coetzee and the nineteenth-century Russian writers; title: Cultures in translation : Ivan Vladislavić and the itinerant imagery of the 1990s fiction; title: Nadine Gordimer and the end of apartheid in a global perspective; title: Conclusion.