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 book, Jeanne-Marie Jackson demonstrates how Russian writing''s "Golden Age" in the troubled nineteenth-century has served as a model for South African writers both during and after apartheid. Exploring these two isolated literary cultures alongside each other, the book challenges the limits of "global" methodologies in contemporary literary studies and outdated models of center-periphery relations to argue for a more locally involved scale of literary enquiry with more truly global horizons.>

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Jeanne-Marie Jackson is Assistant Professor of world Anglophone literature at Johns Hopkins University, USA.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Dr Jeanne-Marie Jackson, Dr Jeanne-Marie (Connecticut College Jackson, Dr. Jeanne-Marie Jackson, Jeanne-Marie Jackson, Jeanne-Marie (Connecticut College Jackson
• Mitarbeit: Peter Boxall (Herausgeber), Bryan Cheyette (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 22.10.2015
• EAN: 9781472592996
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-9299-6
• Seiten: 248
• Serien: New Horizons in Contemporary Writing; New Horizons in Contemporary W; New Horizons in Contemporary Writing
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Russia, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Republic of South Africa, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet