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"Shane Graham's compelling new study brings a thematic order to the vast and generically diverse body of literature produced in post-apartheid South African. Generously inclusive and interdisciplinary, the study is nevertheless conceptually unified by an effort to understand the connection between bodies, places, and memory: a nexus that Graham teases out in a series of deft, lucid, and judicious readings. South African Literature After the Truth Commission is an unfailingly intelligent and readable book and will prove to be an indispensable scholarly resource." - Rita Barnard, Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, author of Apartheid and Beyond: South African Writers and the Politics of Place
"It has often been remarked that following the political transition in South Africa, the country's literature took an inward turn. From a literature in which the need to bear witness was all-powerful, the emphasis began to fall on autobiography and confession, memory, and aesthetic and moral self-reflection. Shane Graham's account of post-apartheid literature complicates that picture: immensely well informed, his astute and lucid analyses show how the inward turn of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission has turned outward, leaving its mark on the public and social spaces of a fledgling and still struggling democracy." - David Attwell, Professor and Head of English, University of York, UK, author of Rewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African Literary History
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SHANE GRAHAMÂ is an Assistant Professor of English at Utah State University, USA and was formerly a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: South African Literature after the Truth Commission
Book Subtitle: Mapping Loss
Authors: Shane Graham
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230620971
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Shane Graham 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-61537-3Published: 20 May 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-37923-1Published: 08 November 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-62097-1Published: 27 April 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 235
Topics: African Literature, African Languages, Postcolonial/World Literature, Fiction, Twentieth-Century Literature