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Breaking the silence : South African representations of HIV/AIDS
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ISBN: 9781847010704 9781782041924 Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford : James Currey,


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The quiet violence of dreams
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ISBN: 9780795705946 0795705948 9780795704970 0795704976 9780795705953 0795705956 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cape Town : Kwela Books,

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Set in Cape Town's cosmopolitan neighbourhoods, this novel revolves around Tshepo, a student at Rhodes, who is confined to a mental institution after an episode of 'cannabis-induced psychosis'.

Rediscovery of the ordinary : essays on South African literature and culture
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ISBN: 9781869140793 1869140796 Year: 2006 Publisher: Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press,

Apartheid and beyond : South Africa writers and the politics of place
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ISBN: 9780199791163 9780195112863 0195112865 0199851050 0199791163 0198027265 0195354559 9786611158767 1429468734 1281158763 Year: 2007 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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Apartheid and Beyond is a major contribution to the study of South African literary culture. It offers elegant readings of Coetzee, Gordimer, Fugard, Tlali, Dike, Magona, and Mda, focusing on the intimate relationship between place, subjectivity, and literary form revealed in their work. It also explores the way apartheid functioned in its day-to-day operations as a geographical system of control, exerting its power through such spatial mechanisms as residential segregation, bantustans, passes, and prisons. Though in the first instance concerned with literary texts, Apartheid and Beyond also meditates on crucial historical processes like colonial occupation, the creation of black townships, migration, forced removals, the emergence of informal settlements, the gradual integration of white cities, and efforts at land reform. Cumulatively, the six essays in this book tell the story of the transformation of apartheid's landscapes of oppression into the more ambiguous landscapes of contemporary South Africa: landscapes of tourism and leisure, of crime and privatized security, of uncontrolled urbanization and persistent poverty. Barnard's methodologically eclectic writing draws on the work of major European and U.S. theorists like Foucault, De Certeau, and Jameson, as well as important African intellectuals like Mbembe, Ramphele, and Ndebele. It also takes literary figures seriously as theorists of space in their own right. Apartheid and Beyond is both an innovative account of an important body of politically-inflected literature and an imaginative reflection on the socio-spatial aspects of the transition from apartheid to democracy.

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