Apartheid and Beyond: South African Writers and the Politics of Place (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780199791163)

Apartheid and Beyond offers trenchant, historically sensitive readings of writings by Coetzee, Gordimer, Fugard, Tlali, Dike, Magona, and Mda, focusing on the intimate relationship between place, subjectivity, and literary form. It also explores the way apartheid functioned in its day-to-day operations as a geographical system of control, exerting its power through such spatial mechanisms as residential segregation, bantustans, passes, and prisons. Throughout the study, Rita Barnard provides historical context by highlighting key events such as colonial occupation, the creation of black townships, migration, forced removals, the emergence of informal settlements, and the gradual integration of white cities. Apartheid and Beyond is both an innovative account of an important body of politically inflected literature and an imaginative reflection on the socio-spatial aspects of the transition from apartheid to democracy.

Author: Rita Barnard
ISBN-10: 0199791163
ISBN-13: 9780199791163
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2012
Pages: 234
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.50d