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South African Gothic
- Anxiety and Creative Dissent in the Post-apartheid Imagination and Beyond
Engelsk Hardback
South African Gothic
- Anxiety and Creative Dissent in the Post-apartheid Imagination and Beyond
Engelsk Hardback

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The term ‘Gothic’ has rarely been brought to bear on contemporary South African fictions, appearing too fanciful for the often overtly political writing of apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa. As the first sustained exploration of Gothic impulses in South African literature, this book accounts for the Gothic currents that run through South African imaginaries from the late-nineteenth century onwards. South African Gothic identifies an intensification in Gothic production that begins with the nascent decline of the apartheid state, and relates this to real anxieties that arise with the unfolding of social and political change. In the context of a South Africa unmaking and reshaping itself, Gothic emerges as a language for long-suppressed histories of violence, and for ongoing experiences at odds with utopian images of the new democracy. Its function is interrogative and ultimately creative, and the volume challenges narrow conceptions of the status quo to drive towards alternative, less exclusionary visions.
 
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
288
ISBN-13:
9781786832467
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1786832461
Udg. Dato:
15 jun 2018
Længde:
26mm
Bredde:
224mm
Højde:
250mm
Forlag:
University of Wales Press
Oplagsdato:
15 jun 2018
Forfatter(e):
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