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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.

Cities and towns in literature. --- Urbanization --- Südafrika --- Postapartheid Literatur --- Postkoloniale Literatur --- Raumtheorie --- Identität --- South Africa --- South Africa --- Literature. --- Literature. --- Südafrika --- Postapartheid Literatur --- Postkoloniale Literatur --- Raumtheorie --- Identität

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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.

Cities and towns in literature. --- Urbanization --- South Africa --- Literature. --- Südafrika --- Postapartheid Literatur --- Postkoloniale Literatur --- Raumtheorie --- Identität

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This book focuses on six post-apartheid novels, namely Zo¨e Wicomb's ''Playing in the Light'' (2006), Marlene van Niekerk's ''Agaat'' (2004/2007), André Brink's ''Devil's Valley'' (1998), Sarah Penny's ''The Beneficiaries'' (2002), K Sello Duiker's ''Thirteen Cents'' (2000), and Kgebetli Moele's ''Room 207'' (2006). It aims at highlighting different manifestations of melancholia that are visible in these texts in particular and in post-apartheid writing more generally. Mainly based on Sigmund Freud's, Anne Cheng's, and Paul Gilroy's concepts of melancholia, most novels are regarded as melancholic counter-narratives to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission's attempt to initiate a nationwide process of mourning with the aim of subsequent closure of the apartheid past. Moreover, concepts of melancholia prove particularly useful in order to analyse issues such as complicity, uncritical whiteness, crises of identity, forms of resistance, and intergenerational memory.

Melancholy in literature --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature --- South African fiction. --- Südafrika --- Postapartheid Literatur --- Postkoloniale Literatur --- Truth and Reconciliation Commission --- Melancholie --- South Africa --- In literature. --- Südafrika --- Postapartheid Literatur --- Postkoloniale Literatur --- Truth and Reconciliation Commission --- Melancholie

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Nothing but the Truth is a story of two brothers, of sibling rivalry, of exile, of memory and reconciliation, of the perplexities of freedom.

Brothers --- Post-apartheid era --- Sibling rivalry --- South Africa --- Rivalry, Sibling --- Child psychology --- Competition (Psychology) --- Jealousy in children --- Postapartheid era --- Apartheid

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This book focuses on six post-apartheid novels, namely Zo¨e Wicomb's ''Playing in the Light'' (2006), Marlene van Niekerk's ''Agaat'' (2004/2007), André Brink's ''Devil's Valley'' (1998), Sarah Penny's ''The Beneficiaries'' (2002), K Sello Duiker's ''Thirteen Cents'' (2000), and Kgebetli Moele's ''Room 207'' (2006). It aims at highlighting different manifestations of melancholia that are visible in these texts in particular and in post-apartheid writing more generally. Mainly based on Sigmund Freud's, Anne Cheng's, and Paul Gilroy's concepts of melancholia, most novels are regarded as melancholic counter-narratives to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission's attempt to initiate a nationwide process of mourning with the aim of subsequent closure of the apartheid past. Moreover, concepts of melancholia prove particularly useful in order to analyse issues such as complicity, uncritical whiteness, crises of identity, forms of resistance, and intergenerational memory.

Melancholy in literature --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature --- South African fiction. --- South Africa --- In literature. --- Südafrika --- Postapartheid Literatur --- Postkoloniale Literatur --- Truth and Reconciliation Commission --- Melancholie