Room number: TRS 1-073
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Chair: Isaac Ndlovu (U Venda)
Speakers:
Felicity Hand (UA Barcelona), “The Disruptive Aftermath of 1994: Reading Deon Meyer through The New Apartheid”
Coplen Rose (U Toronto), “Kaleidoscopic Visions of South Africa: A Study of State and Station in Imraan Coovadia’s Tales of the Metric System”
Sifiso Sibanda (North-West U), “Profuse bleeding of ruptured wounds as an albatross of postapartheid South Africa: a consideration of Mda’s Black diamond”
Paper Summaries:
Felicity Hand (UA Barcelona), “The Disruptive Aftermath of 1994: Reading Deon Meyer through The New Apartheid”
This paper reads three of Deon Meyer’s novels through Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh’s chapter on punishment from his recent publication, The New Apartheid (2021). I claim that crime fiction represents the contemporary political novel in South Africa and Meyer’s work depicts the failure of the state to overcome the legacies of apartheid.
Coplen Rose (U Toronto), “Kaleidoscopic Visions of South Africa: A Study of State and Station in Imraan Coovadia’s Tales of the Metric System”
This article explores the narrative structure of Imraan Coovadia’s Tales of the Metric System. The novel recounts major events in recent South African history from a range of individual perspectives. This structure foregrounds the links between individual identity, nationalism, and the trauma created by apartheid violence.
Sifiso Sibanda (North-West U), “Profuse bleeding of ruptured wounds as an albatross of postapartheid South Africa: a consideration of Mda’s Black diamond”
In this paper, I consider how Mda’s Black diamond embellishes post-apartheid South Africa. I further examine a litany of evidence in his novel that reveals a grim picture of what Mda seems to repress in the text. Tumi and friends enjoy a lavish lifestyle whereas the majority languish in indigence