The South African short story in English, 1920-2010 : when aesthetics meets ethics / Marta Fossati.

Marta Fossati traces the development of the South African short story in English from the late 1920s to the first decade of the twenty-first century, examining its narratological characteristics, its dialogue between aesthetics and ethics, and its material print culture.

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Main Author: Fossati, Marta (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]
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520 8 |a Marta Fossati traces the development of the South African short story in English from the late 1920s to the first decade of the twenty-first century, examining its narratological characteristics, its dialogue between aesthetics and ethics, and its material print culture. 
521 |a Specialized. 
505 0 |a Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction: 'Like the Flash of Fireflies' -- 1 Between The Sjambok and the Bantu World Fiction and Journalism in Rolfes Dhlomo's Short Stories -- 1.1 New African modernity -- 1.2 Protest and realism: The mine stories in The Sjambok -- Tradition, orality, and hybridity: The stories in the Bantu World -- 1.4 The Jim-comes-to-Joburg stories -- 1.5 Shifting publishing contexts -- 2 Experimentalism in Herbert Dhlomo's Ten 'Unpublished' Short Stories -- 2.1 A modern/modernist writer? 
505 8 |a 2.2 Tradition, modernity, and female protagonists -- 2.3 Documentary imperatives and social critique -- 2.4 Science and crime: Dhlomo's detective stories -- 3 Interlude: Dark Testament by Peter Abrahams -- 3.1 A 'lonely voice': Abrahams's exilic trajectory -- 3.2 'I Remember . . .': Memoirs or modernist interludes? -- 3.3 'Stories': Autobiography and universalist concerns -- 3.4 Beyond South Africa: US connections and metropolitan aspirations -- 4 The 'Fabulous Decade': Realism and Literariness in the Short Fiction by Can Themba and Alex La Guma -- 4.1 The publishing scene in the 1950s 
505 8 |a 4.2 Between popular fiction and Romanticism: The short stories in Drum -- 4.3 Social critique and generic hybridity: Themba's mature fiction -- 4.4 Journalism, realism, and the ordinary: La Guma's stories -- 4.5 'Too political': Nadine Gordimer and the New Yorker -- 5 'Eenheid and Apartheid': Unity and Difference in Mtutuzeli Matshoba's and Ahmed Essop's Short-Story Cycles -- 5.1 At the crossroads of literature and politics: Print media and Staffrider -- 5.2 Communal place and storytelling: The short-story cycle -- 5.3 Print media in/as literature 
505 8 |a 5.4 Call Me Not a Man: Short stories or 'proemdra'? -- 5.5 Fables of fragmentation: Essop's two post-apartheid collections -- 6 Beyond South Africa and the Politics of Realism: The Textuality of Reality in Zoë Wicomb's Two Short-Story Cycles -- 6.1 Ethical and aesthetical concerns: The importance of setting -- 6.2 Intertextuality in You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town -- 6.3 Uncanny repetitions in The One that Got Away -- 6.4 'Repeated, refashioned': Concluding remarks -- Bibliography -- Index 
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