The Short Story in South Africa (eBook, ePUB)

Contemporary Trends and Perspectives
Redaktion: Fasselt, Rebecca; Sandwith, Corinne

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book considers the key critical interventions on short story writing in South Africa written in English since the year 2000. The perfect guide to contemporary short story writing in South Africa, this book will be essential reading for researchers of African literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000562507
• Artikelnr.: 63648440

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Fasselt is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Corinne Sandwith is Professor of English at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: The short story in South Africa - new trends and
perspectives 2. "Translated from the dead": The legibility of violence in
Ivan Vladislavi¿'s 101 Detectives 3. Coloured by history, shaped otherwise:
A "decolonial" reading of Zoë Wicomb 4. Hyper-compression and the rise of
the deep surface: Flash fiction in "post-transitional" South Africa 5.
Queer temporalities in two short stories by Makhosazana Xaba: The afterlife
of Can Themba's "The Suit" 6. Queerying examples of contemporary South
African short fiction 7. Therianthropic power in Mohale Mashigo's
speculative short fiction 8. Navigating the spectacular in queer African
erotic short fiction 9. Imagining Africa's futures in two Caine
Prize-winning stories: Henrietta Rose-Innes's "Poison" and NoViolet
Bulawayo's "Hitting Budapest" 10. On reading, writing and being read:
Journeying with the short story 11. Short stories born from the womb of the
past 12. "Concrete fragments": An interview with Henrietta Rose-Innes 13.
LongStorySHORT: Decolonising the reading landscape - A conversation with
Kgauhelo Dube 14. "My stories will remain written the way I talk": A
conversation with Niq Mhlongo