TY - BOOK AU - Demir,Danyela TI - Reading loss: post-apartheid melancholia in contemporary South African novels SN - 3832547940 AV - Internet Access AEGMCT U1 - 823.9209353 23 PY - 2019///] CY - Berlin, Germany PB - Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH KW - Melancholy in literature KW - Postcolonialism in literature KW - Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature KW - South African fiction KW - M�elancolie dans la litt�erature KW - Postcolonialisme dans la litt�erature KW - Identit�e dans la litt�erature KW - Roman sud-africain KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - This book focuses on six post-apartheid novels, namely Zo¨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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3541153 ER -