TY  - BOOK
AU  - Paulina Grzęda
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783631864371
TI  - Time and Alterity in South African Writing
T2  - André Brink, J.M. Coetzee, and Zakes Mda Revisited
DO  - 10.3726/b18852
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1114418
N2  - 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.
KW  - Temporalities, Otherness, Alter(nat)ing Temporalities, Post-apartheid Literature, Postcolonial Trauma, Post-crisis
LA  - English
ER  -