Graham K. Riach, The Short Story after Apartheid: Thinking with Form in South African Literature (Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2023)
In this dense and rich study, Graham K. Riach investigates short stories by five South African authors (Nadine Gordimer, Ivan Vladislavić, Zoë Wicomb, Phaswane Mpe, and Henrietta Rose-Innes) and demonstrates how their use of the genre’s specificities might afford (a word borrowed from Caroline Levi...
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Journal of the Short Story in English
2024
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| On-line přístup: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Shrnutí: | In this dense and rich study, Graham K. Riach investigates short stories by five South African authors (Nadine Gordimer, Ivan Vladislavić, Zoë Wicomb, Phaswane Mpe, and Henrietta Rose-Innes) and demonstrates how their use of the genre’s specificities might afford (a word borrowed from Caroline Levine) opportunities for readers to consider the issues South Africa still faces after apartheid, in a manner that is itself peculiar to that genre. Through a formal rather than historicist lens, he e... |
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