Present imperfect contemporary South African writing First Edition Van Der Vlies 0192512544 9780192512543

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• ISBN 10: 0192512544
• ISBN 13: 9780192512543
• Author: Van Der Vlies

Present Imperfect asks how South African writers have responded to the end of apartheid, to the hopes that attended the birth of the ‘new’ nation in 1994, and to the inevitable disappointments that have followed. The first full-length study of affect in South Africa’s literature, it understands ‘disappointment’ both as a description of bad feeling and as naming a missed appointment with all that was promised by the anti-colonial and anti-apartheid Struggle (a dis-appointment). Attending to contemporary writers’ treatment of temporality, genre, and form, it considers a range of negative feelings that are also experiences of temporal disjuncture-including stasis, impasse, boredom, disaffection, and nostalgia.

Table of contents:

1. On Being Stuck: Stasis and Situation Tragedy

2. Bad Feelings in the Provinces of History

3. Temporal Adoption, Novelistic Prosthesis

4. Towards a Critical Nostalgia

5. South Africa, Time or Place?

6. Stasis Anxiety: On Contemporary Waithood

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