Research Catalog

Diaspora and identity in South African fiction

Title
Diaspora and identity in South African fiction / J.U. Jacobs.
Author
Jacobs, J. U. (Johan U.)
Publication
Scottsville, Kwazulu-Natal : University of KwaZulu Natal Press, 2016.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

2 Items

StatusFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
Request for On-site UseRequest Scan
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?
TextRequest in advance ReCAP 20-3250Offsite
Request for On-site UseRequest Scan

Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.

TextUse in library JFE 16-7735Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

Details

Description
ix, 354 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"South African identities, as they are represented in the contemporary South African novel, are not homogeneous, but fractured and often conflicted: African, Afrikaner, 'colored, ' English, and Indian. None can be regarded as rooted or pure, whatever essentialist claims the members of these various ethnic and cultural communities might want to make for them. All of them, this study argues, are deeply divided and have arisen, directly or indirectly, out of the experience of diasporic displacement, migration, and relocation, from the colonial, African, and Indian diasporas to present-day migrations into and out of South Africa, as well as diasporic dislocations within Africa. The book contains 20 works by 12 contemporary South African novelists - Breyten Breytenbach, J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Aziz Hassim, Michiel Heyns, Elsa Joubert, Zakes Mda, Njabulo S. Ndebele, Karel Schoeman, Patricia Schonstein Pinnock, Ivan Vladislavic, and Zoe Wicomb - and shows how diaspora is a dominant theme in contemporary South African fiction, and how the diasporic subject is a most recognizable figure."--Back cover.
Subject
  • South African fiction > History and criticism
  • Identity (Psychology) in literature
  • South Africans > Migrations
  • South Africans > Race identity
  • South Africans > Ethnic identity
  • African diaspora in literature
  • East Indian diaspora in literature
  • South African fiction
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-339) and index.
Call Number
ReCAP 20-3250
ISBN
  • 9781869143015
  • 1869143019
LCCN
2015494900
OCLC
925438615
Author
Jacobs, J. U. (Johan U.), author.
Title
Diaspora and identity in South African fiction / J.U. Jacobs.
Publisher
Scottsville, Kwazulu-Natal : University of KwaZulu Natal Press, 2016.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-339) and index.
Research Call Number
ReCAP 20-3250
JFE 16-7735
View in Legacy Catalog