The Short Story after Apartheid

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Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1835533930
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book The Short Story after Apartheid written by Graham K. Riach and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-15 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Short Story after Apartheid offers the first major study of the anglophone short story in South Africa since apartheid’s end. By focusing on the short story this book complicates models of South African literature dominated by the novel and contributes to a much-needed generic and formalist turn in postcolonial studies. Literary texts are sites of productive struggle between formal and extra-formal concerns, and these brief, fragmentary, elliptical, formally innovative stories offer perspectives that reframe or revise important concerns of post-apartheid literature: the aesthetics of engaged writing, the politics of the past, class and race, the legacies of violence, and the struggle over the land. Through an analysis of key texts from the period by Nadine Gordimer, Ivan Vladislavić, Zoë Wicomb, Phaswane Mpe, and Henrietta Rose-Innes, this book assesses the place of the short story in post-apartheid writing and develops a fuller model of how artworks allow and disallow forms of social thought.

Reflecting Apartheid

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Jump and Other Stories

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408832631
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis Jump and Other Stories by : Nadine Gordimer

Download or read book Jump and Other Stories written by Nadine Gordimer and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of sixteen stories, Gordimer brings unforgettable characters from every corner of society to life: a child refugee fleeing civil war in Mozambique; a black activist's deserted wife longing for better times; a rich safari party indulging themselves while lionesses circle their lodge. Jump is a vivid, disturbing and rewarding portrait of life in South Africa under apartheid.

Out of Bounds

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141928255
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Book Synopsis Out of Bounds by : Beverley Naidoo

Download or read book Out of Bounds written by Beverley Naidoo and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2001-06-07 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories - four previously published and three new - linked by the theme of young people experiencing personal dilemmas. All are set in South Africa, first under apartheid and then after the first democratic elections. They cover the period from 1950 to 2000 and reflect the lives of a range of young people, black and white, living in what was for many years seen as the world's most openly racist society.

Tracing the (Post)Apartheid Novel beyond 2000

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003815391
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis Tracing the (Post)Apartheid Novel beyond 2000 by : Danyela Dimakatso Demir

Download or read book Tracing the (Post)Apartheid Novel beyond 2000 written by Danyela Dimakatso Demir and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology comprises of interviews with contemporary South African authors, offering vignettes of their lives and summaries of their works. In curating this book, Danyela Demir and Olivier Moreillon step beyond pure literary theory and analysis. They welcome the authors to speak and assess the literary panorama in which they live and co-create. However, Demir and Moreillon also trace concepts and terms that describe the current South African literature, such as post-transitional literature and literature beyond 2000. By adopting a world-literary approach to (post)apartheid literature, this book contributes to debates on contemporary South African writing. In addition, Tracing the (Post)Apartheid Novel Beyond 2000 seeks to raise awareness of the imbalance in both critical and public attention between literary ‘big names’, such as André P. Brink, J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer and Zakes Mda, who are popular worldwide, and the younger and newer generation of South African writers, who go largely unnoticed. Print edition not for sale in Sub Saharan Africa.

My Son's Story

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 074756275X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book My Son's Story written by Nadine Gordimer and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-11-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a passionate love story; love between a man and two women, between father and son, and something even more demanding- a love of freedom.

No Time Like the Present

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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374709122
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book No Time Like the Present written by Nadine Gordimer and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sharply observed new novel about post-apartheid South Africa from the Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer is one of our most telling contemporary writers. With each new work, she attacks—with a clear-eyed fierceness, a lack of sentimentality, and a deep understanding of the darkest depths of the human soul—her eternal themes: the inextricable link between personal and communal history; the inescapable moral ambiguities of daily life; the political and racial tensions that persist in her homeland, South Africa. And in each new work is fresh evidence of her literary genius: in the sharpness of her psychological insights, the stark beauty of her language, the complexity of her characters, and the difficult choices with which they are faced. In No Time Like the Present, Gordimer trains her keen eye on Steve and Jabulile, an interracial couple living in a newly, tentatively, free South Africa. They have a daughter, Sindiswa; they move to the suburbs; Steve becomes a lecturer at a university; Jabulile trains to become a lawyer; there is another child, a boy this time. There is nothing so extraordinary about their lives, and yet, in telling their story and the stories of their friends and families, Gordimer manages to capture the tortured, fragmented essence of a nation struggling to define itself post-apartheid. The subject is contemporary, but Gordimer's treatment is, as ever, timeless. In No Time Like the Present, she shows herself once again a master novelist, at the height of her prodigious powers.

The Heinemann Book of South African Short Stories

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Publisher : Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 9780435906726
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (67 download)

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Book Synopsis The Heinemann Book of South African Short Stories by : Denis Hirson

Download or read book The Heinemann Book of South African Short Stories written by Denis Hirson and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1994 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All by writers who spent their formative years in South Africa, this diverse range of short stories spans from the end of World War II when the National Party was on the upsurge, to the early 1990s when the legal framework of apartheid was abolished, the ANC was legalized and Mandela was released.

Nadine Gordimer and the Rhetoric of Otherness in Post-Apartheid South Africa

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443867527
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Nadine Gordimer and the Rhetoric of Otherness in Post-Apartheid South Africa by : Maria-Luiza Caraivan

Download or read book Nadine Gordimer and the Rhetoric of Otherness in Post-Apartheid South Africa written by Maria-Luiza Caraivan and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nadine Gordimer and the Rhetoric of Otherness in Post-Apartheid South Africa observes and examines several issues that are central to the South African writer’s works: the uniqueness of terror in a difficult historical period, the desire to annihilate racial oppression, and, above all, the psychological alienation provoked by racism. The analysis also focuses on literary topics that are specific to Gordimer’s post-Apartheid writings, such as the significance of multiculturalism, the status of writers, the banalisation of violence due to mass-media coverage, the reconciliation with a violent past, globalization and loss of cultural and national identity, economic exile, and migration. The book proposes in five chapters a journey into Nadine Gordimer’s novels, short stories and non-fiction that presents the reader with a multifaceted Other who is no longer specific to postcolonial and multicultural South Africa but can be identified across the globe as alterity is redefined by globalization.

The Short Story in South Africa

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000562409
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis The Short Story in South Africa by : Rebecca Fasselt

Download or read book The Short Story in South Africa written by Rebecca Fasselt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-25 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the key critical interventions on short story writing in South Africa written in English since the year 2000. The short story genre, whilst often marginalised in national literary canons, has been central to the trajectory of literary history in South Africa. In recent years, the short story has undergone a significant renaissance, with new collections and young writers making a significant impact on the contemporary literary scene, and subgenres such as speculative fiction, erotic fiction, flash fiction and queer fiction expanding rapidly in popularity. This book examines the role of the short story genre in reflecting or championing new developments in South African writing and the ways in which traditional boundaries and definitions of the short story in South Africa have been reimagined in the present. Drawing together a range of critical interventions, including scholarly articles, interviews and personal reflective pieces, the volume traces some of the aesthetic and thematic continuities and discontinuities in the genre and sheds new light on questions of literary form. Finally, the book considers the place of the short story in twenty-first century writing and interrogates the ways in which the short story form may contribute to, or recast ideas of, the post-apartheid or post-transitional. The perfect guide to contemporary short story writing in South Africa, this book will be essential reading for researchers of African literature.

Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black

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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429967609
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black written by Nadine Gordimer and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-11-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You're not responsible for your ancestry, are you . . . But if that's so, why have marched under banned slogans, got yourself beaten up by the police, arrested a couple of times; plastered walls with subversive posters . . . The past is valid only in relation to whether the present recognizes it." In this collection of new stories, Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black, Nadine Gordimer crosses the frontiers of politics, memory, sexuality, and love with the fearless insight that is the hallmark of her writing. In the title story a middle-aged academic who had been an anti-apartheid activist embarks on an unadmitted pursuit of the possibilities for his own racial identity in his great-grandfather's fortune-hunting interlude of living rough on diamond diggings in South Africa, his young wife far away in London. "Dreaming of the Dead" conjures up a lunch in a New York Chinese restaurant where Susan Sontag and Edward Said return in surprising new avatars as guests in the dream of a loving friend. The historian in "History" is a parrot who confronts people with the scandalizing voice reproduction of quarrels and clandestine love-talk on which it has eavesdropped. "Alternative Endings" considers the way writers make arbitrary choices in how to end stories—and offers three, each relating the same situation, but with a different resolution, arrived at by the three senses: sight, sound, and smell.

A Study Guide for Nadine Gordimer's "Once Upon a Time"

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Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410354644
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Nadine Gordimer's "Once Upon a Time" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Nadine Gordimer's "Once Upon a Time," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

The Columbia Guide to South African Literature in English Since 1945

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231130465
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Book Synopsis The Columbia Guide to South African Literature in English Since 1945 by : Gareth Cornwell

Download or read book The Columbia Guide to South African Literature in English Since 1945 written by Gareth Cornwell and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the outset, South Africa's history has been marked by division and conflict along racial and ethnic lines. From 1948 until 1994, this division was formalized in the National Party's policy of apartheid. Because apartheid intruded on every aspect of private and public life, South African literature was preoccupied with the politics of race and social engineering. Since the release from prison of Nelson Mandela in 1990, South Africa has been a new nation-in-the-making, inspired by a nonracial idealism yet beset by poverty and violence. South African writers have responded in various ways to Njabulo Ndebele's call to "rediscover the ordinary." The result has been a kaleidoscope of texts in which evolving cultural forms and modes of identity are rearticulated and explored. An invaluable guide for general readers as well as scholars of African literary history, this comprehensive text celebrates the multiple traditions and exciting future of the South African voice. Although the South African Constitution of 1994 recognizes no fewer than eleven official languages, English has remained the country's literary lingua franca. This book offers a narrative overview of South African literary production in English from 1945 to the postapartheid present. An introduction identifies the most interesting and noteworthy writing from the period. Alphabetical entries provide accurate and objective information on genres and writers. An appendix lists essential authors published before 1945.

Lifetimes Under Apartheid

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Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Lifetimes Under Apartheid written by Nadine Gordimer and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1986 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is another contribution to the growing pictorial record of apartheid in South Africa, and like some earlier series of black-and-white photographs it is haunted with pathos and irony. Like the pictures from Peter Magubane's Magubane's South Africa (LJ 5/15/78), Goldblatt's images span 35 years and qualify as works of art in their own right.

Loot

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0747565384
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Loot written by Nadine Gordimer and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-09-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new collection of stories from the South African Nobel laureate

Living in Hope and History

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408833034
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Living in Hope and History written by Nadine Gordimer and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few writers have so consistently taken stock of the society in which they have lived. In a letter to fellow Nobel Laureate Kenzaburo Oe, Nadine Gordimer describes this impressive volume as 'a modest book of some of the non-fiction pieces I've written, a reflection of how I've looked at this century I've lived in.' It is, in fact, an extraordinary collection of essays, articles, appreciations of fellow writers and addresses delivered over four decades, including her Nobel Prize Lecture of 1991. We may examine here Nadine Gordimer's evidence of the inequities of Apartheid as she saw them in 1959, her shocking account of the bans on literature still in effect in the mid-1970s, through to South Africa's emergence in 1994 as a country free at last, a view from the queue on that first day blacks and whites voted together plus updates on subsequent events. Gordimer's canvas is global and her themes wide-ranging. She examines the impact of technology on our expanding world-view, the convergence of the moral and the political in fiction and she reassesses the role of the writer in the world today.

Selected Stories

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Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Stories written by Nadine Gordimer and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1983 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these stories, selected by Nadine Gordimer herself, unforgettable characters from every corner of society come to life. The African landscape they inhabit - from the River Zaire to black Johannesburg to the hushed gardens of the white suburbs - is brilliantly depicted. The setting of these stories is South Africa, Nadine Gordimer's homeland; in their imaginative and compelling visions, their powerful implications are universal.