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Losing the plot : crime, reality and fiction in postapartheid writing / Leon de Kock.

Title
Losing the plot : crime, reality and fiction in postapartheid writing / Leon de Kock.
Author
De Kock, Leon
Publication
Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2016.

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Description
ix, 277 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Alternative Title
Losing the plot : crime, reality and fiction in post-apartheid writing
Subject
  • Englisch
  • Kriminalroman
  • Roman
  • South African fiction (English) > 21st century > History and criticism
  • South African fiction (English) > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Post-apartheid era > South Africa > In literature
  • Crime in literature
  • Südafrika
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-264) and index.
Contents
From the subject of evil to the evil subject : cultural differences in post-apartheid South African crime fiction -- Freedom on a frontier? The double bind of (white) post-apartheid South African literature -- The transitional calm before the post-apartheid storm -- Biopsies on the body of the 'new' South Africa -- Referred pain, wound culture and pathology in post-apartheid writing -- Fiction's response.
ISBN
  • 9781868149643
  • 1868149641
  • 9781868149674 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781868149650 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781868149667 (canceled/invalid)
OCLC
957243160
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library