{"product_id":"9783030419394","title":"New Comparisons in World Literature: Spaces of Transition","description":"\u003ch1\u003eNew Comparisons in World Literature: Spaces of Transition\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003ePoyner, Jane\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Worlding of the South African Novel\u003c\/i\u003e develops from something of a paradox: that despite momentous political transition from apartheid to democracy, little in South Africa’s socio-economic reality \u003ci\u003ehas\u003c\/i\u003e actually changed. Poyner discusses how the contemporary South African novel engages with this reality. In forms of literary experiment, the novels open up intellectual spaces shaping or contesting the idea of the “new South Africa”. The mediatising of truth at the TRC hearings, how best to deal with a spectacular yet covert past, the shaping for “unimagined communities” of an inclusive public sphere, HIV\/AIDS as the preeminent site testing capitalist modernity, white anxieties about land reform, disease as environmental injustice and the fostering of an enabling restorative cultural memory: Poyner argues that through these key nodes of intellectual thought, the novels speak to recent debates on world-literature to register the “shock” of an uneven modernity produced by a capitalist world economy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2021-08-21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783030419394\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-030-41937-0\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 312\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47692830769292,"sku":"9783030419394","price":49.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783030419394.jpg?v=1776697864","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783030419394","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}