The contemporary South African trauma novel: Michiel Heyns' Lost Ground (2011) and Marlene van Niekerk's The Way of the Women (2008)

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ang-2020-0007" target="_blank" >10.1515/ang-2020-0007</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

The contemporary South African trauma novel: Michiel Heyns' Lost Ground (2011) and Marlene van Niekerk's The Way of the Women (2008)

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

After the end of apartheid in 1990 and the new constitution of 1994, the genre of the contemporary South African novel is experiencing a heyday. One reason for this is that, with the end of censorship, the authors can go about unrestraint to take a critical look at the traumatized country and the state of a nation that shows a great need to come to terms with its past. In this context, trauma and narration prove to be a fertile combination, an observation that stands in marked contrast to the deconstructionist view of trauma as &apos;unclaimed&apos; experience and the inability to speak about it. Michiel Heyns&apos; Lost Ground (2011) and Marlene van Niekerk&apos;s The Way of the Women (2008) are prime examples of the contemporary South African trauma novel. As crime fiction, Lost Ground not only tells a thrilling story but is also deeply involved in South African politics. The novelist Heyns plays with postmodernist structures, but the real strength of the novel lies in its realistic milieu description and the analysis of the protagonist&apos;s traumatic &apos;entanglements&apos;. The Way of the Women is mainly a farm novel but also shows elements of the historical novel and the marriage novel. It continues the process of the deconstruction of the farm as a former symbol of the Afrikaner&apos;s pride and glory. Both novels&apos; meta-fictional self-reflections betray the self-consciousness of their authors who are aware of the symbolization compulsions in a traumatized country. They use narrative as a means of &apos;working through&apos;, coming to terms with trauma, and achieving reconciliation. Both novels&apos; complex narrative structures may be read as symbolic expressions of traumatic &apos;entanglements&apos; that lie at the heart of the South African dilemma.

Název v anglickém jazyce

The contemporary South African trauma novel: Michiel Heyns' Lost Ground (2011) and Marlene van Niekerk's The Way of the Women (2008)

Popis výsledku anglicky

After the end of apartheid in 1990 and the new constitution of 1994, the genre of the contemporary South African novel is experiencing a heyday. One reason for this is that, with the end of censorship, the authors can go about unrestraint to take a critical look at the traumatized country and the state of a nation that shows a great need to come to terms with its past. In this context, trauma and narration prove to be a fertile combination, an observation that stands in marked contrast to the deconstructionist view of trauma as &apos;unclaimed&apos; experience and the inability to speak about it. Michiel Heyns&apos; Lost Ground (2011) and Marlene van Niekerk&apos;s The Way of the Women (2008) are prime examples of the contemporary South African trauma novel. As crime fiction, Lost Ground not only tells a thrilling story but is also deeply involved in South African politics. The novelist Heyns plays with postmodernist structures, but the real strength of the novel lies in its realistic milieu description and the analysis of the protagonist&apos;s traumatic &apos;entanglements&apos;. The Way of the Women is mainly a farm novel but also shows elements of the historical novel and the marriage novel. It continues the process of the deconstruction of the farm as a former symbol of the Afrikaner&apos;s pride and glory. Both novels&apos; meta-fictional self-reflections betray the self-consciousness of their authors who are aware of the symbolization compulsions in a traumatized country. They use narrative as a means of &apos;working through&apos;, coming to terms with trauma, and achieving reconciliation. Both novels&apos; complex narrative structures may be read as symbolic expressions of traumatic &apos;entanglements&apos; that lie at the heart of the South African dilemma.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

60206 - Specific literatures

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Anglia-Zeitschrift Fur Englische Philologie

ISSN

0340-5222

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

138

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

DE - Spolková republika Německo

Počet stran výsledku

22

Strana od-do

144-165

Kód UT WoS článku

000519965300008

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85082319652