Making Use of History in New South African Fiction

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Making Use of History in New South African Fiction

Name: Making Use of History in New South African Fiction
Brand: Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)
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Historical Perspectives in Three Post-Apartheid Novels

Written by Sten Pultz Moslund

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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.

ISBN-13: 9788772897844
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Imprint: Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)
Publication date: 1 March 2003
Format: Hardback
Pages: 135
Dimensions: 150 x 220 mm
Language: English