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Author:

Jackson, Jeanne-Marie, author.

Title:

South African literature's Russian soul : narrative forms of global isolation / Jeanne-Marie Jackson.

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Academic,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

vii, 236 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

1800-1999
South African literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Russian literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Comparative literature--South African and Russian.
Comparative literature--Russian and South African.
Russian literature.
South African literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-232) and index.

Contents:

Russia in the South African imaginary -- The novel at a crossroads: Gordimer, Tlali, and the struggle for form -- Making animals work in Tolstoy, Coetzee, and Van Niekerk -- Retreating reality: Chekhov's South African afterlives -- Émigré fiction and the double-bind of home.

Series:

New horizons in contemporary writing

ISBN:

1472592999
9781472592996
1350030309
9781350030305

OCLC:

(OCoLC)959876133

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)