“How Far Can You Go?” The Contemporary South African University Novel in Black on White
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
“How Far Can You Go?” The Contemporary South African University Novel in Black on White
Original language description
In J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace (1999), we are looking at South African university life from the perspective of a frustrated white university professor of English who, after the first democratic elections in 1994, has been “relocated” to the communications department and is only occasionally allowed to teach his favourite subject, Romantic poetry. Niq Mhlongo’s Dog Eat Dog (2004) portrays university life in 1994 from the perspective of a struggling black student who is not applying himself too hard to his studies but who believes that somehow or other he is entitled to make it in the new South Africa. Both novels begin as university novels, but comparable to David Lodge’s Nice Work (1988) they soon leave the ivory tower of academia and foreground other aspects of society: life on the farm in the first case, and life in the township in the second. Both pictures complement each other in many ways. Read together, the two novels create a lively portrait of the sea-change that South African universities underwent after the fall of apartheid. This sea-change seems to be the seedbed on which university fiction can grow, maybe not only in South Africa but also elsewhere in the world.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60206 - Specific literatures
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
The Campus Novel: Regional or Global?
ISBN
978-90-04-39231-1
Number of pages of the result
17
Pages from-to
122-138
Number of pages of the book
197
Publisher name
Brill Academic Publishers
Place of publication
Leiden
UT code for WoS chapter
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