South African Literature after the Truth

This book studies a broad and ambitious selection of contemporary South African literature--fiction, drama, poetry, and memoir--to make sense of the ways in which these works "remap" the intersections of memory, space/place, and the body, as they explore the legacy of apartheid.

Shane Graham is an Assistant Professor of English at Utah State University, and was formerly a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction: Mapping Loss	p. 1
Spaces of Truth-Telling: The TRC and Post-Apartheid Literatures of Memory	p. 23
Introduction	p. 23
The Calcification of Memory: The Story I Am about to Tell and He Left Quietly	p. 34
A Theater of Displacement: Ubu and the Truth Commission	p. 40
The Lie Where the Truth Is Closest: Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull	p. 49
Words That Look Like Acts: Ingrid de Kok's Transfer and Terrestrial Things	p. 62
Irredeemable Blood, Irretrievable Loss: Sindiwe Magona's Mother to Mother	p. 76
Conclusion	p. 84
Post-Apartheid Urban Spaces	p. 87
Introduction	p. 87
Peace through Amnesia: Achmat Dangor's Bitter Fruit	p. 94
The City Dissected: Ivan Vladislavic's The Exploded View	p. 103
Linguistic Trips: Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to Our Hillbrow	p. 114
Peripatetic Mapping: K. Sello Duiker's The Quiet Violence of Dreams	p. 120
Excavating the City: Aziz Hassim's The Lotus People	p. 127
Conclusion	p. 134
Excavations and the Memory of Landscapes	p. 135
Introduction	p. 135
A Map of Echoes: Anne Landsman's The Devil's Chimney	p. 142
Buried Footprints: Zoëet; Wicomb's David's Story	p. 151
Burdened by the Scars of History: Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness	p. 167
Conclusion	p. 176
Conclusion	p. 179
Notes	p. 185
Bibliography	p. 209
Index	p. 225
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South African Literature after the Truth Commission Mapping Loss

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