Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Russia in the South African Imaginary -- 2 The Novel at a Crossroads: Gordimer, Tlali, and the Struggle for Form -- 3 Making Animals Work in Tolstoy, Coetzee, and Van Niekerk -- 4 Retreating Reality: Chekhov's South African Afterlives --…
How do great moments in literary traditions arise from times of intense social and political upheaval? This book charts the interplay of narrative innovation and political isolation in two of the world's most renowned non-European literatures.
"How do great moments in literary traditions arise from times of intense social and political upheaval? South African Literature's Russian Soul charts the interplay of narrative innovation and political isolation in two of the world's most renowned non-European literatures. In t…