Critical Perspectives on Damon Galgut (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Bialas, Zbigniew

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

When Damon Galgut won the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Promise in 2021, he was already an established writer. He had previously been shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2003 and 2010 and had been the author of eight novels and four plays, but before the success of The Promise, he remained relatively unknown to the general public outside South Africa. This volume is an attempt to engage an international set of specialists in postcolonial studies, South African literature, and, in several cases, established writers themselves, in a debate devoted entirely to Galgut's novels. This publication demonstrates that Galgut's work exceeds what readers tend to expect from post-apartheid white writing. Rather than offering the standard narratives of guilt, despair, and frustration, Galgut's novels, in dialogue with each other, and in dialogue with cultural and philosophical trends, propose a more intricate fabric. The writer's diagnosis of the human condition ultimately seems to transcend the constitutive turmoil and the crises, offering a vision of surprisingly and fascinatingly complex reality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040593844
• Artikelnr.: 75646846

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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
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- 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 Index