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The Covid-19 pandemic has thrust us all into a warped, disjointed ‘coronatime,’ which has both uncontrollably accelerated, and interminably decelerated, or got frozen. Just like the pandemic, this book provides a chance to reevaluate neoliberalism’s temporal regimes of growth, decline, deceleration and acceleration. South Africa and its contemporary literature are a perfect background against which to think about temporality experimentally. Focusing on three South African authors, André Brink, J.M. Coetzee and Zakes Mda, the book examines contemporary South African revisioning of time and alterity. Through some of the previously unexplored texts, it studies what living in a post-conflict, post-revolutionary and highly traumatized society entails for one’s perception of time and otherness.
Autor: Grzeda, Paulina
ISBN: 9783631863343
Sprache: Englisch
Produktart: Gebunden
Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Veröffentlicht: 22.10.2021
Untertitel: André Brink, J.M. Coetzee, and Zakes Mda Revisited
Schlagworte: Alter(nat)ing Temporalities Otherness Post-apartheid Literature Post-crisis Postcolonial Trauma Temporalities
Paulina Grzeda is Assistant Professor at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, Poland. She researches alternative perceptions of time in postcolonial cultures (with a special focus on Africa), historiography, cultural perceptions of otherness, representations of trauma in film and literature, as well as links between literature and psychotherapy. She is also a certified coach and an inquisitive traveller.