Reading Loss Post-Apartheid Melancholia in Contemporary South African Novels

• Main Author: Demir, Danyela (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Germany Logos Verlag Berlin 2019
• Subjects: Literature & literary studies; Literary studies: post-colonial literature; Südafrika; Postapartheid Literatur; Postkoloniale Literatur; Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Melancholie
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This book focuses on six post-apartheid novels, namely Zo¨e Wicomb's ''Playing in the Light'' (2006), Marlene van Niekerk's ''Agaat'' (2004/2007), André Brink's ''Devil's Valley'' (1998), Sarah Penny's ''...