Literary Landscapes: From Modernism to Postcolonialism

247 Pages·2008·2.262 MB·English

by  Attie de Lange, Gail Fincham, Jeremy Hawthorn, Jakob Lothe (eds.)

Literary Landscapes
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Literary Landscapes
From Modernism to Postcolonialism
Editedby
Attie de Lange, Gail Fincham, Jeremy Hawthorn and
Jakob Lothe
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Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex.
1.Place(Philosophy)inliterature. 2.Englishfiction—20thcentury—Historyand
criticism. 3.SouthAfricanfiction(English)—Historyandcriticism. 4.Commonwealth
fiction(English)—Historyandcriticism. 5.Spaceinliterature. 6.Spaceandtime
inliterature. 7.Identity(Psychology)inliterature. 8.Postcolonialisminliterature.
9.Modernism(Literature)—English-speakingcountries. 10.Postmodernism
(Literature)—English-speakingcountries. I.DeLange,Attie. II.Fincham,Gail.
III.Hawthorn,Jeremy. IV.Lothe,Jakob.
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Contents
NotesontheContributors vii
Acknowledgements x
Introduction xi
1 Space,Time,Narrative:FromThomasHardytoFranzKafka
andJ.M.Coetzee 1
Jakob Lothe
2 TheAmericanSpacesofHenryJames 19
Merle A. Williams
3 SpaceandPlaceintheNovelsofE.M.Forster 38
Gail Fincham
4 TravelasIncarceration:JeanRhys’sAfterLeaving
MrMackenzie 58
Jeremy Hawthorn
5 ‘WhereAmI?’:FeminineSpaceandTimeinVirginia
Woolf’sTheYears 75
Merry M. Pawlowski
6 ImaginingtheKarooLandscape:FreeIndirectDiscourse,
theSublime,andtheConsecrationofWhitePoverty 92
Johan Geertsema
7 ‘Reading’and‘Constructing’Space,GenderandRace:
JosephConrad’sLordJimandJ.M.Coetzee’sFoe 109
Attie de Lange
8 RemainsoftheName 125
Carrol Clarkson
9 Houses,CellarsandCavesinSelectedNovelsfromLatin
AmericaandSouthAfrica 143
Marita Wenzel
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10 TransformationofOrdinaryPlacesintoImaginativeSpace
inZakesMda’sWriting 161
Ina Gräbe
11 No-Man’sLand:NuruddinFarah’sLinksandtheSpaceof
PostcolonialAlienation 180
Harry Garuba
12 ChangingSpaces:SalmanRushdie’sMappingof
Post-ColonialTerritories 198
Frederik Tygstrup
Index 214
Notes on the Contributors
Carrol Clarkson did her DPhil in English at the University of York
in the UK, and now teaches at the University of Cape Town in South
Africa. Her main research interests and publications are in philosophy
of language and in post-apartheid South African literature and art.
She has also published articles on post-apartheid jurisprudence and is
currently editing a collection of essays and writing a monograph on
J.M.Coetzee.
AttiedeLangeisProfessorofEnglishandwasDirectoroftheResearch
Unit ‘Languages and Literature in the South African Context’ at the
Potchefstroom Campus of the North-West University in South Africa
from 2001 to 2007. He collaborated with Gail Fincham as editor and
co-editor of Conrad in Africa: New Essays on ‘Heart of Darkness’ (2002)
andConradattheMillennium:Modernism,Postmodernism,Postcolonialism
(2001)respectively.
Gail Fincham is Head of the Department of English at the University
of Cape Town. She has edited, co-edited and contributed to three
collections of essays on Conrad: Under Postcolonial Eyes: Joseph Conrad
AfterEmpire(1996),ConradattheMillennium:Modernism,Postmodernism,
Postcolonialism (2002) and Conrad in Africa (2003). She has chapters in
three forthcoming books: Joseph Conrad: Voice, Sequence, History, Genre
(ed.Lothe,Hawthorn,andPhelan);ZakesMda:WaysofWriting(ed.Bell
and Jakobs); and J. M. Coetzee and the Aesthetics of Place (ed. Clarkson).
Co-editorofTheEnglishAcademyReview,shehaswrittenarticlesforSouth
Africanandinternationaljournals.
Harry Garuba is Associate Professor at the Centre for African Studies,
University of Cape Town, with a joint appointment in the English
Department. His recent publications include ‘Explorations in Animist
Materialism:NotesonReading/WritingAfricanLiterature,Culture,and
Society’(((PublicCulture,Spring2003);‘TheUnbearableLightnessofBeing:
Re-Figuring Trends in Recent Nigerian Poetry’ (((English in Africa, May
2005);and‘ASecondLife:Museums,Mimesis,andtheNarrativesofthe
TourGuidesofRobbenIsland’inDesireLines:Space,MemoryandIdentity
inthePost-ApartheidCity(2007).
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viii NotesontheContributors
Johan Geertsema is Assistant Professor in the University Scholars
Programme, National University of Singapore. Among his research
interestsareRomanticism,particularlytheoriesofironyandofthesub-
lime as these intersect with colonialism; the politics of space, empire,
andtheruleoflaw;andthetheoryandpracticeoftranslation.Hisrecent
essayshaveappeared,orareforthcoming,inEmergenciesandtheLimitsof
Legality(ed.VictorV.Ramraj);TranslationandtheClassic(ed.Alexandra
Lianeri and Vanda Zajko); Journal of Postcolonial Writinggg; and Journal of
CommonwealthLiterature.
InaGräbeisEmeritusProfessorofTheoryofLiteratureattheUniversity
of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria. Her most important publications
includeabook-lengthstudyonpoeticlanguageandstylistics,amono-
graph on the interpretation of poetic metaphor, a monograph entitled
Landscape as a Troubled Space (1997), as well as a number of articles on
narratologyandSouthAfricannarrativefocusingonthenovelisticprac-
tice of J. M. Coetzee, Zakes Mda and others. She is the general editor
of the six-volume proceedings of the 16th triennial congress of the
InternationalComparativeLiteratureAssociation(ICLA),heldatUNISA,
Pretoria,inAugust2000(2004–2007).
Jeremy Hawthorn is Professor of Modern British Literature at the
NorwegianUniversityofScienceandTechnology,Trondheim.Histhird
monograph on Joseph Conrad, Sexuality and the Erotic in the Fiction of
Joseph Conrad, was published in 2007. He has edited two of Conrad’s
novelsforOxfordWorld’sClassicsandhaspublishedmanyarticleson
Conrad’s fiction. The fourth edition of his A Glossary of Contemporary
LiteraryTheorywaspublishedin2000,andthefiftheditionofhisStudying
theNovelin2005,bothbyArnold.
JakobLotheisProfessorofEnglishLiteratureattheUniversityofOslo.
His books include Conrad’s Narrative Method (1989) and Narrative in
Fiction and Film (2000). The author of numerous articles, he has edited
or co-edited several volumes including European and Nordic Modernisms
(2004), The Art of Brevity (2004), and Joseph Conrad: Voice, Sequence,
History, Genre (2008). In 2005–2006 he was the leader of the research
project‘Narrativetheoryandanalysis’attheCentreforAdvancedStudy,
Oslo.
MerryM.PawlowskiteachesatCaliforniaStateUniversity,Bakersfield.
She is the author of Virginia Woolf and Fascism: Resisting the Dictators’
NotesontheContributors ix
Seduction(PalgraveMacmillan,2001).Herarticle‘VirginiaWoolf’sVeil:
TheFeministIntellectualandtheOrganizationofPublicSpace’isforth-
coming in Modern Fiction Studies 53(4). Her work has also appeared in
several volumes of Woolf Studies Annual, including the recent ‘Expos-
ingMasculineSpectacle:VirginiaWoolf’sNewspaperClippingsforThree
Guineas as Contemporary Cultural History’, Woolf Studies Annual 9
(2003),pp.116–140.
FrederikTygstrupisDirectoroftheCopenhagenDoctoralSchoolinCul-
tural Studies, and Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the
University of Copenhagen. His primary specialization is in the history
andtheoryoftheEuropeannovel,documentedinthetwomonographs
FictionsofExperience:TheEuropeanNovel1615–1857(1992)andInSearch
oftheReal:Essaysonthe20thCenturyNovel(2000),bothinDanish.His
presentresearchinterestsfocusontheintersectionsofartisticandother
social practices, including urban aesthetics, the history of representa-
tions and experiences of space, literature and medicine, literature and
geography,andliteratureandpolitics.
Marita Wenzel is Associate Professor of English at North-West
University,Potchefstroom(SouthAfrica).Herparticularfieldsofinterest
areFeministStudies,ComparativeLiterature(SouthAfrican,postcolonial
andLatinAmericannovels)andTranslationStudies.Apartfromregular
internationalconferenceattendance,shehasalsopublishedseveralart-
icles on South African and Latin American writers. She is a member of
the English Academy of Southern Africa, the International Comparat-
iveLiteratureAssociation,theEuropeanAssociationforCommonwealth
LiteratureandLanguageStudiesandaformermemberoftheUniversity
ofSouthAfricaCentreforLatinAmericanStudies.Sheisalsoanaccred-
itedtranslatorandexaminerfortheSouthAfricanTranslators’Institute
(Afrikaans,SpanishandGermanintoEnglish).
Merle A. Williams is Personal Professor of English at the University of
theWitwatersrand,Johannesburg,andAssistantDeanforGraduateStud-
iesintheFacultyofHumanities.SheistheauthorofHenryJamesandthe
Philosophical Novel: Being and Seeing (1993), and is currently complet-
ingamonographentitledTheChallengeofPrometheus:AReassessmentof
Shelley’s Thought. She has written articles and book chapters on aspects
ofRomanticpoetry,aswellasonHenryJamesinrelationtoModernism
andtheinterplaybetweenliterarytextsandcontemporaryContinental
Philosophy.