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The Short Story in South Africa: Contemporary Trends and Perspectives
The Short Story in South Africa: Contemporary Trends and Perspectives
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The book explores the critical interventions on short story writing in South Africa written in English since 2000, highlighting the genre's renaissance and subgenres' popularity. It examines how the short story reflects and champions new developments in South African writing, reimagines traditional boundaries, and considers its place in twenty-first-century writing.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 266 pages
Publication date: 25 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
The short story genre, while often overlooked in national literary canons, has played a pivotal role in the trajectory of literary history in South Africa. In recent years, the short story has experienced a remarkable resurgence, with new collections and emerging writers making a substantial impact on the contemporary literary scene. Subgenres such as speculative fiction, erotic fiction, flash fiction, and queer fiction have witnessed rapid growth in popularity. This book delves into the role of the short story genre in capturing or championing new developments in South African writing, as well as the ways in which traditional boundaries and definitions of the short story in South Africa have been reimagined in the present. By bringing together a diverse range of critical interventions, including scholarly articles, interviews, and personal reflective pieces, the volume explores the aesthetic and thematic continuities and discontinuities within the genre, shedding new light on questions of literary form. Furthermore, the book examines the place of the short story in twenty-first-century writing and interrogates how the short story form can contribute to or reshape ideas about post-apartheid or post-transitional contexts.
This comprehensive guide is a must-read for scholars and enthusiasts of African literature, offering valuable insights into the rich and diverse landscape of contemporary short story writing in South Africa.
Weight: 453g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032129174
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