Losing the Plot: Crime, Reality and Fiction in Postapartheid South African Writing - Softcover

Kock, Leon De

 
9781868149643: Losing the Plot: Crime, Reality and Fiction in Postapartheid South African Writing
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1868149641 ISBN 13: 9781868149643
Verlag: WITS UNIV PR, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

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 detect forensically 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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Leon de Kock is senior research associate in the Department of English at the University of Johannesburg. He is a poet, translator, essayist, and occasional writer of fiction. His writing includes the novel, Bad Sex (2011); three volumes of poetry: Bloodsong (1997), gone to the edges (2006), Bodyhood (2010); several works of literary translation, and academic books.

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Verlag
WITS UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1868149641
ISBN 13 
9781868149643
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
276
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