Nostalgia contretemps: A theory of contemporary South African literature

Employing Derrida’s contretemps as central to my study, I undertake a close reading of time and nostalgia in contemporary South African fiction as that which is ‘out of joint’ with itself. The main premise of my research involves an illustration of how nostalgic affect is projected towards the ‘lost...

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Main Author: Moonsamy, Nedine
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10539/15111