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oapen-20.500.12657-567862023-02-01T08:50:35Z Reading the Post-Apartheid City Moreillon, Olivier This study analyses the representation of Durbanite and Capetonian urban spaces in the following selection of post-apartheid works: Mariam Akabor's ''Flat 9'', Rozena Maart's ''Rosa's District Six'', Johan van Wyk's ''Man Bitch'', K. Sello Duiker's ''Thirteen Cents'', Bridget McNulty's ''Strange Nervous Laughter'', and Lauren Beukes' ''Moxyland''. The focus lies on the interrelatedness of shifting post-apartheid subjectivities and urban space (and place) in these literary works. The analysis not only grants access to different ‘new voices` of post-apartheid literature, it also sheds light on the perception of South African history, urban geography, and cultural topography – essentially, on real as well as imagined South African urban spaces – as the literary representations of city-spaces become archives of cultural transformation processes; a gateway to the understanding of the developments and changes of, and within, the two cities in question. 2022-06-18T05:37:38Z 2022-06-18T05:37:38Z 2019 book 9783832548308 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56786 eng application/pdf n/a external_content.pdf Logos Verlag Berlin Logos Verlag Berlin https://doi.org/10.30819/4830 https://doi.org/10.30819/4830 1059eef5-b798-421c-b07f-c6a304d3aec8 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9783832548308 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Logos Verlag Berlin Knowledge Unlatched open access
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This study analyses the representation of Durbanite and Capetonian urban spaces in the following selection of post-apartheid works: Mariam Akabor's ''Flat 9'', Rozena Maart's ''Rosa's District Six'', Johan van Wyk's ''Man Bitch'', K. Sello Duiker's ''Thirteen Cents'', Bridget McNulty's ''Strange Nervous Laughter'', and Lauren Beukes' ''Moxyland''. The focus lies on the interrelatedness of shifting post-apartheid subjectivities and urban space (and place) in these literary works. The analysis not only grants access to different ‘new voices` of post-apartheid literature, it also sheds light on the perception of South African history, urban geography, and cultural topography – essentially, on real as well as imagined South African urban spaces – as the literary representations of city-spaces become archives of cultural transformation processes; a gateway to the understanding of the developments and changes of, and within, the two cities in question.
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