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Time and Alterity in South African Writing - André Brink, J.M. Coetzee, and Zakes Mda Revisited

English · Hardback

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The Covid-19 pandemic has thrust us all into a warped, disjointed 'coronatime,' which has both uncontrollably accelerated, and interminably decelerated, or got frozen. Just like the pandemic, this book provides a chance to reevaluate neoliberalism's temporal regimes of growth, decline, deceleration and acceleration. South Africa and its contemporary literature are a perfect background against which to think about temporality experimentally. Focusing on three South African authors, André Brink, J.M. Coetzee and Zakes Mda, the book examines contemporary South African revisioning of time and alterity. Through some of the previously unexplored texts, it studies what living in a post-conflict, post-revolutionary and highly traumatized society entails for one's perception of time and otherness.

List of contents

The Persistence of History and South African Literature
Alterity, Time and De-temporalization of Difference
Magical Realism and Temporalities of Post-apartheid
Towards the Ethics of Alter(nat)ing Temporalities of Post-apartheid:
Alterity and Time in Fiction by Zakes Mda and J.M. Coetzee
Trauma, Alterity and Time in South African Autobiographical Writing
Trilogy of Fictionalized Memoirs by J.M. Coetzee
Memoirs by André Brink and Zakes Mda

About the author










Paulina Grzeda is Assistant Professor at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, Poland. She researches alternative perceptions of time in postcolonial cultures (with a special focus on Africa), historiography, cultural perceptions of otherness, representations of trauma in film and literature, as well as links between literature and psychotherapy. She is also a certified coach and an inquisitive traveller.


Product details

Authors Paulina Grz¿da, Paulina Grzeda
Assisted by Malgorzata Kowalska (Editor)
Publisher Peter Lang
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 21.10.2021
 
EAN 9783631863343
ISBN 978-3-631-86334-3
No. of pages 326
Dimensions 148 mm x 26 mm x 210 mm
Weight 491 g
Series Modernity in Question
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics

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