South African literature's Russian soul : narrative forms of global isolation /

"How do great moments in literary traditions arise from times of intense social and political upheaval? South African Literature's Russian Soul charts the interplay of narrative innovation and political isolation in two of the world's most renowned non-European literatures. In this bo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jackson, Jeanne-Marie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
Series:New horizons in contemporary writing.
Subjects:
1800-1999
South African literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Russian literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Comparative literature > South African and Russian.
Comparative literature > Russian and South African.
Littérature sud-africaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Literary studies: from c 1900.
Literary studies: post-colonial literature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Russian literature
South African literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction. Russia in the South African Imaginary
  • 2. The Novel at a Crossroads: Gordimer, Tlali, & the Struggle for Form: I. Testing Trans-Century Parallels ; II. Gordimer's Effacement by Narration ; III. The Path of Progress in Miriam Tlali's Amandla
  • 3. Making Animals Work in Tolstoy, Coetzee, and Van Niekerk: I. Dismantling Tolstoy's Strider ; II. Coetzee's Action of Absence ; III. Enduring Isolation in Marlene van Niekerk's Triomf
  • 4. Retreating Reality: Chekhov's South African Afterlives: I. Structuring Chekhovian Timelessness ; II. De Wet's Self-Disabling Response ; III. The Risky Business of Canonical Affirmation
  • 5. Émigré Fiction and the Double-Bind of Home. I. Permeable Repossessions and Nabokov's Speak, Memory ; II. Mark Behr's Not-Quite-Global Novel ; III. Nkosi's Mandela's Ego as Ambivalent Mourning
  • 6. Epilogue
  • Works Cited
  • Index.

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