South African Literature's Russian Soul

Narrative Forms of Global Isolation

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

Av Jeanne-Marie Jackson, Bryan Cheyette

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How do great moments in literary traditions arise from times of intense social and political upheaval? South African Literature’s Russian Soul charts the interplay of narrative innovation and political isolation in two of the world’s most renowned non-European literatures. In this book, Jeanne-Marie Jackson demonstrates how Russian writing’s “Golden Age” in the troubled nineteenth-century has served as a model for South African writers both during and after apartheid. Exploring these two isolated literary cultures alongside each other, the book challenges the limits of "global" methodologies in contemporary literary studies and outdated models of center-periphery relations to argue for a more locally involved scale of literary enquiry with more truly global horizons.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-10-22
Mått156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt526 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Horizons in Contemporary Writing
Antal sidor248
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781472592996

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1. Introduction. Russia in the South African Imaginary 2. The Novel at a Crossroads: Gordimer, Tlali, & the Struggle for FormI. Testing Trans-Century Parallels II. Gordimer’s Effacement by NarrationIII. The Path of Progress in Miriam Tlali’s Amandla3. Making Animals Work in Tolstoy, Coetzee, and Van NiekerkI. Dismantling Tolstoy’s StriderII. Coetzee’s Action of AbsenceIII. Enduring Isolation in Marlene van Niekerk’s Triomf 4. Retreating Reality: Chekhov’s South African AfterlivesI. Structuring Chekhovian TimelessnessII. De Wet’s Self-Disabling ResponseIII. The Risky Business of Canonical Affirmation 5. Émigré Fiction and the Double-Bind of HomeI. Permeable Repossessions and Nabokov’s Speak, MemoryII. Mark Behr’s Not-Quite-Global NovelIII. Nkosi’s Mandela’s Ego as Ambivalent Mourning 6. Epilogue. Works Cited Index

Jackson’s South African Literature’s Russian Soul: Narrative Forms of Global Isolation [is] well researched and well informed in the relevant scholarship areas for her study, be it Russian Literature, South African Literature, or Literary Theory on the novel from nineteenth-century realism to contemporary theories on the novel. Her ideas are lucidly expressed and corroborated with relevant textual evidence … Scholars in the related fields of African Literature, Russian Literature, Contemporary Literature, Comparative Literature, World Literature, Literary Theory, and Global Studies will find South African Literature’s Russian Soul a valuable acquisition.