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Following the critical principles as they were articulated in an earlier article on South African literature (Buikema, 2009), the paper discusses a more recent call for literary engagement in the context of contemporary debates on world novel and world literature. In a dialogue with Buikema’s readin...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-766822023-12-06T12:12:01Z Chapter Reading to reveal the world Lukić, Jasmina world novel feminist ethics Octavia Butler bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AB The arts: general issues::ABA Theory of art bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFJ Social discrimination & inequality Following the critical principles as they were articulated in an earlier article on South African literature (Buikema, 2009), the paper discusses a more recent call for literary engagement in the context of contemporary debates on world novel and world literature. In a dialogue with Buikema’s reading of two South African novels, Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee and Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk, the paper turns to Octavia Butler’s novel Kindred (1979) following a similar method of interpretation, which emphasizes the singularity of text and combines close reading with contextual approach. 2023-10-12T13:13:55Z 2023-10-12T13:13:55Z 2023 chapter ONIX_20231012_9789048560110_8 9789048560110 9789048560127 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76682 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 10_5117_9789048560110_lukic.pdf Amsterdam University Press Transities in kunst, cultuur en politiek = Transitions in Art, Culture, and Politics 10.5117/9789048560110_lukić 10.5117/9789048560110_lukić dd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857a 95ba63c0-4a4a-4684-a56c-73ba347aa51b b586072e-2e5d-469f-8332-217c0beb5b08 4d864437-7722-4c66-b80f-140a98d4bca9 9789048560110 9789048560127 7 Amsterdam [...] [...] open access
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