Making Use of History in New South African Fiction : Historical Perspectives in Three Post-Apartheid Novels

Sten Pultz Moslund

ISBN 10: 8772897848 / ISBN 13: 9788772897844

Editore: Museum Tusculanum Press Mär 2003, 2003

Neuware - A study of the use of history as political ammunition and literature as historical counter-discourse in Mongane Serote's 'Gods of Our Time', Mike Nicol's 'The Ibis Tapestry', and Zakes Mda's 'Ways of Dying'. Moslund shows how literary engagement with the past seeks to rupture the continuity of a strongly dichotomised epistemology and through that dissolve the inherited polarisation of society. Falsification of history is exposed as constructed discourse and past simplifications of reality as sharply demarcated into homogenous self-justifying, categorisations of, Us against Them, are challenged with paradox, doubt and introspection. Codice articolo 9788772897844

Riassunto:

A study of the use of history as political ammunition and literature as historical counterdiscourse in Mongane Serot's Gods of Our Time, Mike Nicol's The Ibis Tapestry, and Zakes Mda's Ways of Dying. Moslund shows how literary engagement with the past seeks to rupture the continuity of a strongly dichotomised epistemology and through that dissolve the inherited polarisation of society. Falsification of history is exposed as constructed discourse and past simplifications of reality as sharply demarcated into homogenous self-justifying. Categorisations of Us against Them are challenged with paradox, doubt and introspection.

Informazioni sull'autore: Sten Pultz Moslund presently teaches literature and English at a Danish high school and British history at the University of Southern Denmark.

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Titolo: Making Use of History in New South African ...
Casa editrice: Museum Tusculanum Press Mär 2003
Data di pubblicazione: 2003
Legatura: Buch
Condizione: Neu