Autorentext

Zbigniew Biäas is Professor of English in the Institute of Literary Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland and author of five novels. He was a Humboldt Research Fellow in Germany, a Fulbright Senior Fellow in the USA and a Rockefeller Research Fellow in Italy. His academic books include Post-Tribal Ethos in African Literature (1993), Mapping Wild Gardens: The Symbolic Conquest of South Africa (1997) and The Body Wall: Somatics of Travelling and Discursive Practices (2006). His first novel, Korzeniec (2011) was awarded Silesian Literary Laurels and was turned into a successful theatrical play. Zbigniew Biäas edited/co-edited twelve academic volumes, published over sixty academic essays, and translated English, American and Nigerian literature into Polish.

Klappentext

This monograph is one of the first on the market that focuses entirely on Damon Galgut's novels. The authors of the essays approach the South African writer's work from a variety of different critical perspectives and show that Damon Galgut's novels transcend what readers generally expect from post-apartheid white writing.

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List of Contributors

Editor's Preface

Zoë Wicomb - Repetition and Recursivity in Two Galgut Texts

Ewa Dynarowicz - Politics of (Not-)Belonging in Damon Galgut's The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs

S awomir Mas o - Of Love and Murder, and Nothing: The Political Moment of The Quarry

Marek Pawlicki - The Genuine Ambivalence of Detachment: Exploring the Socioecological Unconscious in Damon Galgut's The Impostor

Robert Kusek - Between Two Worlds: Dybbuks and Doppelgängers in the Works of Deborah Levy and Damon Galgut

Mélanie Joseph-Vilain - "Over and done. Never over, never done": Unstable Identities and Haunted Voices in Damon Galgut's The Promise

Sarah LeFanu - S/He Has No House: Shared Rooms, Displacement and Contested Property in Damon Galgut's The Good Doctor, In a Strange Room, The Impostor and The Promise

Julia Szo tysek - A Literary Bromance: E. M. Forster's Rites of Passage in Damon Galgut's Arctic Summer

Zbigniew Biäas - "Dominion over the domestic scene"? Damon Galgut's The Promise as a Forsterian plaasroman

Nedine Moonsamy - First as Tragedy, Then as Farce: Humour and Disaffection in Damon Galgut's The Promise

Zbigniew Biäas in conversation with Elleke Boehmer - Damon Galgut and the Matter of South Africa

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