TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jacobs,J.U.
TI  - Diaspora and identity in South African fiction
AV  - PR9362.2 .J33 2016
U1  - 823 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Scottsville, Kwazulu-Natal
PB  - University of KwaZulu Natal Press
KW  - South African fiction
KW  - Criticism and interpretation
KW  - Identity (Psychology) in literature
KW  - South Africans
KW  - Migrations
KW  - Race identity
KW  - Ethnic identity
KW  - African diaspora in literature
KW  - East Indian diaspora in literature
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "South African identities, as they are represented in the contemporary South African novel, are not homogeneous, but fractured and often conflicted: African, Afrikaner, 'colored,' English, and Indian. None can be regarded as rooted or pure, whatever essentialist claims the members of these various ethnic and cultural communities might want to make for them. All of them, this study argues, are deeply divided and have arisen, directly or indirectly, out of the experience of diasporic displacement, migration, and relocation, from the colonial, African, and Indian diasporas to present-day migrations into and out of South Africa, as well as diasporic dislocations within Africa. The book contains 20 works by 12 contemporary South African novelists - Breyten Breytenbach, J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Aziz Hassim, Michiel Heyns, Elsa Joubert, Zakes Mda, Njabulo S. Ndebele, Karel Schoeman, Patricia Schonstein Pinnock, Ivan Vladislavic, and Zoe Wicomb - and shows how diaspora is a dominant theme in contemporary South African fiction, and how the diasporic subject is a most recognizable figure."--Back cover
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