2003. Paperback. Num Pages: 135 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 258. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Making Use of History in New South African Fiction: Historical Perspectives in Three Post-Apartheid Novels
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Publication Date: 2003
Language: English
ISBN 10: 8772897848
ISBN 13: 9788772897844
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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A study of the use of history as political ammunition and literature as historical counterdiscourse in Mongane Serot's Gods of Our Time, Mike Nicol's The Ibis Tapestry, and Zakes Mda's Ways of Dying. Moslund shows how literary engagement with the past seeks to rupture the continuity of a strongly dichotomised epistemology and through that dissolve the inherited polarisation of society. Falsification of history is exposed as constructed discourse and past simplifications of reality as sharply demarcated into homogenous self-justifying. Categorisations of Us against Them are challenged with paradox, doubt and introspection.

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Sten Pultz Moslund presently teaches literature and English at a Danish high school and British history at the University of Southern Denmark.

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