- Title
- The pastoral, the primal and the post-apartheid sublime in Justin Cartwright's White Lightning
- Creator
- Klopper, Dirk
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2014
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/458599
- Identifier
- vital:75755
- Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC171543
- Description
- Country is a familiar topos in South African literature, featuring in travel writing and the farm novel, in imperial romance and postcolonial narratives, as pastoral and as anti-pastoral, an uncanny presence in the landscape of modernity. A surprising number of recent South African novels present what may be called post-apartheid country narratives. I am particularly interested in the return to country in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace, Justin Cartwright's White Lightning, and Damon Galgut's The Impostor. Given the history of settler occupation of the land, and the literary deployment of the idea of the land both to posit and to problematize white settler identity, why these stories of a white man's return to the land in the post-apartheid period? What is the impulse behind retracing of contested ground?.
- Format
- 21 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- English in Africa
- Relation
- Klopper, D., 2014. The pastoral, the primal and the post-apartheid sublime in Justin Cartwright's White Lightning. English in Africa, 41(3), pp.97-117
- Relation
- English in Africa volume 41 number 3 97 117 2014 0376-8902
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the English in Africa Statement (https://www.ru.ac.za/isea/publications/journals/englishinafrica/)
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