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portada The Past Coming to Roost in the Present - Historicising History in Four Post-Apartheid South African Novels: Andre p. Brink's Imaginings of Sand, Zake
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2006
Language
English
Pages
120
Format
Paperback
ISBN
3898216861
ISBN13
9783898216869
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The Past Coming to Roost in the Present - Historicising History in Four Post-Apartheid South African Novels: Andre p. Brink's Imaginings of Sand, Zake

Adrian Knapp (Author) · Ibidem Press · Paperback

The Past Coming to Roost in the Present - Historicising History in Four Post-Apartheid South African Novels: Andre p. Brink's Imaginings of Sand, Zake - Adrian Knapp

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Synopsis "The Past Coming to Roost in the Present - Historicising History in Four Post-Apartheid South African Novels: Andre p. Brink's Imaginings of Sand, Zake"

Since the final demise of apartheid in 1994, South Africa has undergone dramatic changes in the political, social, and economic sphere. It is not surprising that these changes have also resulted in contentious reassessments of recent history. Many contemporary South African writers have taken up the challenge and created works offering new ways of critically re-imagining the country's violent past. While André P. Brink's "Imaginings of Sand" and Zakes "Mda's Ways of Dying" constitute renegotiations of the past during the period of transition, J. M. Coetzee's "Disgrace" and Phaswane Mpe's "Welcome to our Hillbrow" represent deliberations of a past that has been hampered in its change by a flawed transition. Just as history can never be taken at face value and never constitutes a finite, all-inclusive narration of the past, the 'historical accounts' provided in these texts often present a one-sided picture of history when considered only on their representational level. On the metafictional level, however, these texts often put such 'misreadings' into perspective and, in doing so, open up an otherwise monochrome reflection of South Africa's rainbow.

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