“Something Hungry and Wild is Still Calling”: Post-Apartheid Gothic

The postcolonial Gothic is now a mode widely covered by literary criticism, but South Africa has often been left out of investigations. This paper argues that only now that apartheid has ended can writers and critics explore how the Gothic manifests itself in South African literature. Showing possib...

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Published in:	Commonwealth (Rodez, France) France), 2012-04, Vol.34 (2), p.61-70
Main Author:	Joseph-Vilain, Mélanie
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	1900-1999 apartheid British & Irish literature English language literature English Literature Fiction Gothic gothic fiction Gothic fiction (Literary genre) Gothic literature Humanities and Social Sciences Literature Post-Apartheid Post-apartheid era Postcolonialism and the arts Schoeman, Karel (1939-2017) Scottish literature Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851) South African Fiction South African literature Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894) Twentieth Century Twenty-First Century
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Summary:	The postcolonial Gothic is now a mode widely covered by literary criticism, but South Africa has often been left out of investigations. This paper argues that only now that apartheid has ended can writers and critics explore how the Gothic manifests itself in South African literature. Showing possible connections between the postcolonial Gothic and recent South African fiction, it seeks to define a new category that can help define the contours of the literary field in South Africa: post-apartheid Gothic.
ISSN:	2270-0633 0395-6989 2534-6695