Demir, Danyela, <br/><br/>
Reading loss :  post-apartheid melancholia in contemporary South African novels / 
Danyela Demir. 
 - 1 online resource (iv, 212 pages) :  file(s). 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/> This book focuses on six post-apartheid novels, namely Zo&#x00A8;e Wicomb's ''Playing in the Light'' (2006), Marlene van Niekerk's ''Agaat'' (2004/2007), Andr�e Brink's ''Devil's Valley'' (1998), Sarah Penny's ''The Beneficiaries'' (2002), K Sello Duiker's ''Thirteen Cents'' (2000), and Kgebetli Moele's ''Room 207'' (2006). It aims at highlighting different manifestations of melancholia that are visible in these texts in particular and in post-apartheid writing more generally. Mainly based on Sigmund Freud's, Anne Cheng's, and Paul Gilroy's concepts of melancholia, most novels are regarded as melancholic counter-narratives to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission's attempt to initiate a nationwide process of mourning with the aim of subsequent closure of the apartheid past. Moreover, concepts of melancholia prove particularly useful in order to analyse issues such as complicity, uncritical whiteness, crises of identity, forms of resistance, and intergenerational memory. 
<br/><br/><br/>In English. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>3832547940 9783832547943 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Melancholy in literature.<br/>Postcolonialism in literature.<br/>Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.<br/>South African fiction.<br/>M�elancolie dans la litt�erature.<br/>Postcolonialisme dans la litt�erature.<br/>Identit�e dans la litt�erature.<br/>Roman sud-africain.<br/>Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.<br/>Melancholy in literature.<br/>Postcolonialism in literature.<br/>South African fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label>--Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>Internet Access  / AEGMCT 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>823.9209353