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alongside each other, the book challenges the limits of "global" methodologies in contemporary literary studies and outdated models of center-periphery relations to argue for a more locally involved scale of literary enquiry with more truly global horizons.>

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Dr. Jeanne-Marie Jackson, Jeanne-Marie Jackson
• Assisted by: Bryan Cheyette (Editor), Martin Paul Eve (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9781350030305
• ISBN: 978-1-350-03030-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: New Horizons in Contemporary W; New Horizons in Contemporary Writing; New Horizons in Contemporary W; New Horizons in Contemporary Writing
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Russia, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Republic of South Africa, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000