Losing the Plot : Crime, reality and fiction in postapartheid South African writing / Leon de Kock.
| データ種別 | 電子ブック |
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| 出版者 | Baltimore, Maryland : (Baltimore, Md. : : Project Muse, : Project MUSE, |
| 出版者 | Johannesburg, South Africa: : (Baltimore, Md. : : Wits University Press, : Project MUSE, |
| 出版年 | 2018 : 2015) |
| 出版年 | 2016. : 2015) |
| 大きさ | 1 online resource (1 PDF (ix, 277 pages)) |
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| 内容注記 | 1. Introduction -- 2. From the subject of evil to the evil subject : cultural difference in postapartheid South African crime fiction -- 3. Freedom on a frontier? The double bind of (white) postapartheid South African literature -- 4. The transitional calm before the postapartheid storm -- 5. Biopsies on the body of the 'new' South Africa -- 6. Referred pain, wound culture and pathology in postapartheid writing -- 7. Fiction's response. / 1. Introduction -- 2. From the subject of evil to the evil subject : cultural difference in postapartheid South African crime fiction -- 3. Freedom on a frontier? The double bind of (white) postapartheid South African literature -- 4. The transitional calm before the postapartheid storm -- 5. Biopsies on the body of the 'new' South Africa -- 6. Referred pain, wound culture and pathology in postapartheid writing -- 7. Fiction's response. |
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| 一般注記 | Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-264) and index. Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. In Losing the Plot, well-known scholar and writer Leon de Kock offers a lively and wide-ranging analysis of postapartheid South African writing which, he contends, has morphed into a far more flexible and multifaceted entity than its predecessor. If postapartheid literature's founding moment was the 'transition' to democracy, writing over the ensuing years has viewed the Mandelan project with increasing doubt. Instead, authors from all quarters are seen to be reporting, in different ways and from divergent points of view, on what is perceived to be a pathological public sphere in which the plot-- the mapping and making of social betterment -- appears to have been lost. The compulsion to forensically detect the actual causes of such loss of direction has resulted in the prominence of creative nonfiction. A significant adjunct in the rise of this is the new media, which sets up a 'wounded' space within which a 'cult of commiseration' compulsively and repeatedly plays out the facts of the day on people's screens; this, De Kock argues, is reproduced in much postapartheid writing. And, although fictional forms persist in genres such as crime fiction, with their tendency to overplot, more serious fiction underplots, yielding to the imprint of real conditions to determine the narrative construction. |
| 著者標目 | *De Kock, Leon, Project Muse, Project Muse. |
| 件 名 | LCSH:Crime in literature. LCSH:Post-apartheid era -- South Africa -- In literature. 全ての件名で検索 LCSH:South African fiction (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism. 全ての件名で検索 LCSH:South African fiction (English) -- 21st century -- History and criticism. 全ての件名で検索 LCSH:Electronic books. FREE:Electronic books. -- local 全ての件名で検索 |
| 分 類 | LCC:PR9369.3.D34 DC:823.91409 |
| 巻冊次 | 9781868149674 ; ISBN:9781868149674  XISBN:9781868149643
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| ISBN | 9781868149674 |
| URL | https://muse.jhu.edu/book/50553/ |
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