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South African Literature Beyond the Cold War
Monica Popescu
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Description for South African Literature Beyond the Cold War
Hardcover. With new perspectives on postcolonial studies, this volume traces the development and forms of a fascination with Eastern European cultures in South African literature during and after the Cold War. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 2AB; DSBH5. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 149 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 398.
Contemporary South African literature reflects a fascination with Russian and Eastern European stories of revolution and transformation as well as resistance to state oppression. In this groundbreaking book, Monica Popescu studies the formative role played by an imaginary and real Eastern Europe in literature written during and after apartheid. Reading the end of apartheid against the fall of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe, she rethinks the genealogy and aims of postcolonial studies in the context both of the Cold War and of the various forms of colonial domination and resistance in South Africa.
Contemporary South African literature reflects a fascination with Russian and Eastern European stories of revolution and transformation as well as resistance to state oppression. In this groundbreaking book, Monica Popescu studies the formative role played by an imaginary and real Eastern Europe in literature written during and after apartheid. Reading the end of apartheid against the fall of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe, she rethinks the genealogy and aims of postcolonial studies in the context both of the Cold War and of the various forms of colonial domination and resistance in South Africa.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
237
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230617391
SKU
V9780230617391
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Ref
99-15
About Monica Popescu
MONICA POPESCU Assistant Professor in the Department of English at McGill University, USA.
Reviews for South African Literature Beyond the Cold War
Winner of the 2012 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities! '...groundbreaking study...What strikes one immediately, given Popescu's deft exploration of the psychological impact of Eastern European and Cold War politics and their position within the South African imaginary, is that no one has, given the abundance of literary examples that Popescu cites, made the connection before ... Read more