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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. It Addresses Key Questions In South African Studies About The Evolving Character Of The Hi

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Author

Van der Vlies, Andrew

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780191835551

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Literary Collections, Literary Fiction