Diaspora and Identity in South African Fiction - J. U. Jacobs

South African identities as they are represented in the contemporary South African novel are not homogeneous but fractured and often conflicted: African Afrikaner `coloured' English and Indian - none can be regarded as rooted or pure whatever essentialist claims members of these various ethnic and cultural communities might want to make for them. All of them this book argues are deeply divided and have arisen directly or indirectly out of the experience of diasporic displacement migration and relocation from the colonial African and Indian diasporas to present-day migrations into and out of South Africa and diasporic dislocations within Africa. This study of twenty works by twelve contemporary South African novelists - Breyten Breytenbach J.M. Coetzee Nadine Gordimer Aziz Hassim Michiel Heyns Elsa Joubert Zakes Mda Njabulo S. Ndebele Karel Schoeman Patricia Schonstein Pinnock Ivan Vladislavic and Zoe Wicomb - shows how diaspora is a dominant theme in contemporary South African fiction and the diasporic subject its most recognisable figure.

TITLE: Diaspora and Identity in South African Fiction

AUTHOR: J. U. Jacobs

SKU: 9781869143015

PUBLISHER: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press

DATE PUBLISHED: 10/09/2015

PLACE PUBLISHED: South Africa

PAGES: 386

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 150 mm x 230 mm