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03299aam a2200481 i 4500 001 7B18902A209B11EABA878C2E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20191217010151 008 190703t20192019sz b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019417272 020 $a 3906927083 020 $a 9783906927084 035 $a (OCoLC)1088925213 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d L2U $d TEU $d YDXIT $d CHVBK $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCA $d IaU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a f-sx--- 050 4 $a PL8014.N32 $b B33 2019 082 04 $a 809/.93326881 $2 23 100 1 $a Baas, Renzo, $e author. 245 10 $a Fictioning Namibia as a space of desire : $b an excursion into the literary space of Namibia during colonialism, apartheid and the liberation struggle / $c Renzo Baas. 264 1 $a Basel, Switzerland : $b Basler Afrika Bibliographien, $c 2019. 300 $a viii, 286 pages ; $c 24 cm 490 1 $a Basel Southern Africa studies, $x 2296-6986 ; $v 12 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-282) and index. 520 $a Modern-day Namibian history has largely been shaped by three major eras: German colonial rule, South African apartheid occupation, and the Liberation Struggle. It was, however, not only military conquest that laid the cornerstone for the colony, but also how the colony was imagined, the "dream" of this colony. As a tool of discursive worldmaking, literature has played a major role in providing a framework in which to "dream" Namibia, first from outside its borders, and then from within. In Fictioning Namibia as a Space of Desire, Renzo Baas employs Henri Lefebvre's city-countryside dialectic and reworks it in order to uncover how fictional texts played an integral part in the violent acquisition of a foreign territory. Through the production of myths around whiteness, German and South African authors designed a literary space in which control, destruction, and the dehumanisation of African peoples are understood as a natural order, one that is dictated by history and its linear continuation. These European texts are offset by Namibia's first novel by an African, offering a counter-narrative to the colonial invention that was (German) South West Africa. 650 0 $a Namibian literature $x History and criticism. 651 0 $a Namibia $x In literature. 650 0 $a Racism in literature. 650 0 $a Imperialism in literature. 650 0 $a Colonies in literature. 650 0 $a Comparative literature $x Themes, motives. 650 7 $a Colonies in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00868477 650 7 $a Comparative literature $x Themes, motives. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01735633 650 7 $a Imperialism in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00968142 650 7 $a Literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00999953 650 7 $a Racism in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01086655 650 7 $a Space and time in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01127645 651 7 $a Namibia. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204890 776 08 $i Electronic version: $a Baas, Renzo. $t Fictioning Namibia as a space of desire. $d Basel, Switzerland : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2019 $z 3906927091 $w (OCoLC)1090496733 830 0 $a Basel Southern Africa studies ; $v 12. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317025610.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7B18902A209B11EABA878C2E97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search