Sökning: "literary amnesia"
Hittade 2 avhandlingar innehållade orden literary amnesia.
1. Apartheid, liberalism, and romance : a critical investigation of the writing of Joy Packer
Sammanfattning : This is the first full-length study of the writing of the South African Joy Packer (1905-1977), whose 17 works of autobiography and romantic fiction were primarily popular. Packer’s writing, which appeared mainly between 1945 and 1977, blends popular narrative with contemporary social and political discourses. LÄS MER
2. Subject and History in Selected Works by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Yvonne Vera, and David Dabydeen
Sammanfattning : This study is concerned with subject formation in the fiction of contemporary postcolonial authors Abdulrazak Gurnah, Yvonne Vera, and David Dabydeen. In contextualised readings of a total of nine works – Gurnah’s Admiring Silence (1996), By the Sea (2001), and Desertion (2005); Vera’s Without a Name (1996), Butterfly Burning (1998), and The Stone Virgins (2002); Dabydeen’s Disappearance (1993), Turner (1994), and A Harlot’s Progress (1999) – it explores thematic and formal aspects of the subject’s constitution in the texts. LÄS MER