South African Literature Beyond the Cold War

Popescu, M.

Contemporary South African literature reflects a fascination with Russian and Eastern European stories of revolution and transformation as well as resistance to state oppression. In this groundbreaking book, Monica Popescu studies the formative role played by an imaginary and real Eastern Europe in literature written during and after apartheid. Reading the end of apartheid against the fall of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe, she rethinks the genealogy and aims of postcolonial studies in the context both of the Cold War and of the various forms of colonial domination and resistance in South Africa.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2010-05-14

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230617391

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Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 237