EAN: 9783898216869

THE PAST COMING TO ROOST IN THE PRESENT - HISTO...

Since the final demise of apartheid in 1994  South Africa has undergone dramatic changes in the
political  social  and economic sphere. It is not surprising that these changes have also
resultedin contentious reassessments of recent history. Many contemporary South African writers
have taken up the challenge and created works offering new ways of critically re-imagining the
countrys violent past. While André P. Brinks 'Imaginings of Sand' and Zakes Mdas 'Ways of
Dying' constitute renegotiations of the past during the period of transition  J. M. Coetzees
'Disgrace' and Phaswane Mpes 'Welcome to our Hillbrow' represent deliberations of a past that
has been hampered in its change by a flawed transition. Just as history can never be taken at
face value and never constitutes a finite  all-inclusive narration of the past  the 'historical
accounts' provided in these texts often present a one-sided picture of history when only
considered on their representational level. On the metafictional level  however  these texts
often put such 'misreadings' into perspective and  in doing so  open up an otherwise monochrome
reflection of South Africas rainbow.

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