Losing the Plot : Crime, reality and fiction in postapartheid South African writing /

In Losing the Plot, well-known scholar and writer Leon de Kock offers a lively and wide-ranging analysis of postapartheid South African writing which, he contends, has morphed into a far more flexible and multifaceted entity than its predecessor. If postapartheid literature's founding moment wa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: De Kock, Leon (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Crime in literature.
Post-apartheid era > South Africa > In literature.
South African fiction (English) > 20th century > History and criticism.
South African fiction (English) > 21st century > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. From the subject of evil to the evil subject : cultural difference in postapartheid South African crime fiction
  • 3. Freedom on a frontier? The double bind of (white) postapartheid South African literature
  • 4. The transitional calm before the postapartheid storm
  • 5. Biopsies on the body of the 'new' South Africa
  • 6. Referred pain, wound culture and pathology in postapartheid writing
  • 7. Fiction's response.

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