“How Far Can You Go?” The Contemporary South African University Novel in Black on White

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Výsledek na webu

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

“How Far Can You Go?” The Contemporary South African University Novel in Black on White

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

“How Far Can You Go?” The Contemporary South African University Novel in Black on White

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60206 - Specific literatures

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2019

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

The Campus Novel: Regional or Global?

ISBN

978-90-04-39231-1

Počet stran výsledku

17

Strana od-do

122-138

Počet stran knihy

197

Název nakladatele

Brill Academic Publishers

Místo vydání

Leiden

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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