Apartheid and Beyond is a major contribution to the study of South African literature, offering innovative readings of writers like Coetzee, Gordimer, Fugard, Tlali, and Mda. Focusing on the relationship between place, subjectivity, and literary form, this study enhances our understanding of apartheid as a geographical form of control and of its imagined and actual transformation.
Rita Barnard is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania and Professor Extraordinaire at the University of Stellenbosch.
Introduction 1. Dream Topographies 2. Leaving the House of the White Race 3. Of Trespassers and Trash 4. A Man's Scenery 5. Beyond the Tyranny of Place 6. The Location of Post-Apartheid Culture Editions Cited Notes Index
The breadth and subtleties of Barnard's analysis make Apartheid and Beyond an important study of major South African literary figures