Reassessing Generic Boundaries in South African Literatures
“Reassessing Generic Boundaries in South African Literatures” aims to examine aspects of the South African literary landscape, thirty years after the demise of apartheid, through the prism of literary genres. While the call for contributions invited an exploration of South African literary works sho...
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| Izdano u: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/pla, |
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Jezik: | Anglais |
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Postcolonial Literatures and Arts
2025
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| Online pristup: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sažetak: | “Reassessing Generic Boundaries in South African Literatures” aims to examine aspects of the South African literary landscape, thirty years after the demise of apartheid, through the prism of literary genres. While the call for contributions invited an exploration of South African literary works showing an awareness of the shifting, or fluid, boundaries between various genres (fiction and non-fiction, prose and poetry, realism and fantasy…), most authors have chosen to examine what is at stake in the choice between fiction and non-fiction, and in works which challenge this boundary. The topics examined range from visual culture (The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War, 2000) to literary journalism (The Chimurenga Chronic), from the novel (J. M. Coetzee, Fred Khumalo) to recent historiography. The issue also includes an interview with the writer Fred Khumalo, to offer varied perspectives on the tensions between genres in the contemporary South African landscape. |
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