Reading Loss Post-Apartheid Melancholia in Contemporary South African Novels

• 1. Verfasser: Demir, Danyela (auth)
• Format: Elektronisch Buchkapitel
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlicht: Berlin/Germany Logos Verlag Berlin 2019
• Schlagworte: Literature & literary studies; Literary studies: post-colonial literature; Südafrika; Postapartheid Literatur; Postkoloniale Literatur; Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Melancholie
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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 ''...