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Crossing Borders, Dissolving Boundaries
Edited by Hein Viljoen
Rodopi, Amsterdam/New York, NY 2013. XLVII, 282 pp. (Cross/Cultures 157)
ISBN: 978-90-420-3638-3 Bound
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Online info: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=CC+157
Borders separate but also connect self and other, and literary texts
not only enact these bordering processes, but form part of such
processes. This book gestures towards a borderless world, stepping, as
it were, with thousand-mile boots from south to north (even across the
Atlantic), from South Africa to Scandinavia. It also shows how
literary texts model and remodel borders and bordering processes in
rich and meaningful local contexts. The essays assembled here analyse
the crossing and negotiation of borders and boundaries in works by
Nadine Gordimer, Ingrid Winterbach, Deneys Reitz, Janet Suzman,
Marlene van Niekerk, A.S. Byatt, Thomas Harris, Frank A. Jenssen, Eben
Venter, Antjie Krog, and others under different signs or conceptual
points of attraction. These signs include a spiritual turn,
eventfulness, self-understanding, ethnic and linguistic mobilization,
performative chronotopes, the grotesque, the carceral, the rhetorical,
and the interstitial.
Contributors: Ileana Dimitriu, Heilna du Plooy, John Gouws, Anne
Heith, Lida Krüger, Susan Meyer, Adéle Nel, Ellen Rees, Johan
Schimanski, Tony Ullyatt, Phil van Schalkwyk, Hein Viljoen.
Hein Viljoen is professor of Afrikaans and Dutch Literature and
Literary Theory at the North-West University's Potchefstroom Campus in
South Africa. His research interests include Afrikaans poetry,
literary theory, and literary and cultural hybridity. With Chris N.
van der Merwe he edited Storyscapes (2004) and Beyond the Threshold
(2007). He is also editor-in-chief of Literator, a journal for
national and comparative literature and linguistics
(www.literator.org.za).
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Introduction
Ileana Dimitriu: Representing the Unpresentable: Between the Secular
and the Spiritual in Gordimer's Post-Apartheid Fiction
Heilna du Plooy: Narrative Dynamics and Boundaries: The Undermining of
Event and Eventfulness in The Book of Happenstance by Ingrid Winterbach
John Gouws: Deneys Reitz and the Bounds of Self-Understanding
Anne Heith: Challenging and Negotiating National Borders: Sámi and
Tornedalian AlterNative Literary History
Lida Krüger: The Visual Representation of the Boundary Between Past
and Present: Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and Suzman's The Free State
Susan Meyer: Earth as Home: Nature and Refuges/Living Spaces in Some
Afrikaans Narratives
Adéle Nel: Borders and Abjection in Triomf
Ellen Rees: Body, Corpus, and Corpse: Delineating Henrik Ibsen in A.S.
Byatt's The Biographer's Tale
Johan Schimanski: Pronouncing it the Porder: Ascribing Aesthetic
Values to External and Internal National Borders in Frank A. Jenssen's
The Salt Bin
Tony Ullyatt: The Normal and the Carceral: Boundaries in Thomas
Harris's The Silence of the Lambs
Phil van Schalkwyk: The Aid of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of AIDS: Eben
Venter's Ek stamel ek sterwe
Hein Viljoen: Navigating the Interstitial: Boundaries in Lady Anne by
Antjie Krog
Notes on the Contributors
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