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  title info:
    title: Present imperfect
    sub title: contemporary South African writing
  name:
    name part: Van der Vlies, Andrew
    name part: 1974-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2017
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
  abstract: This work asks how a selection of South African writers have responded to the period since the end of apartheid.
  table of contents: Cover; Present Imperfect: Contemporary South African Writing; Copyright; Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction: No Time Like the Present; No-time and now-time; BAD FEELINGS AND HOPEFUL ORIENTATIONS; HISTORY, TRAGEDY, AND BLOCKED FUTURITY; OPEN ENDINGS, CLOSE READINGS; 1: On Being Stuck: Stasis and Situation Tragedy; Accidental attachments; A still life, still alive; `New Era ́waiting; Situation vacant: on tragedy; 2: Bad Feelings in the Provinces of History; ```In no mood ́́to take positions:́ autrebiography, affectlessness, apatheia, acedia.
  table of contents: Portraits of the alienated artist manquéThe forestalled Bildungsroman; Politics in the provinces (I): the nonposition; Politics in the provinces (II): on irony; 3: Temporal Adoption, Novelistic Prosthesis; Prologue: Ideology and the archive; Adoption and cultural competency; Apartheid cyborgs and retentional prostheses; Provincial literatures and the temporality of `World Literature ́in English; 4: Towards a Critical Nostalgia; Monumentalism, memorialization, and nostalgia; Angels of history; Walking backwards into the future; Sceptical salvage.
  table of contents: Double Negative: memory, referentiality, relationality5: South Africa, Time or Place?; Queering the national family; Cosmopolitanism and cultural translation; On Intertextuality and responsibility; On intertextuality and return to the pays natal; Fiction as home-from-`home;́ 6: Stasis Anxiety: On Contemporary Waithood; Black fictions of the present; Down and out in Newlands and Observatory; Stasis as Civil War; Anxiety, Repetition, Prophecy; Endnotes; NOTES TO PREFACE; NOTES TO INTRODUCTION; NOTES TO CHAPTER 1; NOTES TO CHAPTER 2; NOTES TO CHAPTER 3; NOTES TO CHAPTER 4; NOTES TO CHAPTER 5.
  table of contents: NOTES TO CHAPTER 6Bibliography; Archival Sources; Digital Resources; Published Sources; Index.
  target audience: Specialized.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Andrew van der Vlies.
  note: This edition previously issued in print: 2017.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: South African literature
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Littérature sud-africaine
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
    topic: European
    topic: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  subject:
    topic: South African literature
  subject:
    topic: Literatur
  subject:
    topic: Englisch
  subject:
    topic: Enttäuschung
  subject:
    geographic: Südafrika
  subject:
    topic: Littérature sud-africaine
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: Postapartheid
    geographic: Afrique du Sud
  classification: PR9354.3
  classification: 820.9968
  classification: HP 1226
  identifier: 9780191835551
  identifier: 0191835552
  identifier: 9780192512536
  identifier: 0192512536
  identifier: 0198793766
  identifier: 9780198793762
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: STBDS
    record creation date: 170420
    record change date: 20260319163923.1
    record identifier: in00005714819
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng