Present Imperfect: Contemporary South African Writing
- Submitting institution
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Queen Mary University of London
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1420
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198793762
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Present Imperfect is the first major affect-studies monograph on South African literature. A series of linked author-focused chapters, it discusses work by well-known anglophone writers (including J. M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Zo? Wicomb), significant contemporary Afrikaans-language novelists (Ingrid Winterbach, Marlene van Niekerk), and a new generation of black novelists (Masande Ntshanga). Drawing on original research and an unusually broad range of theoretical and philosophical vocabularies, it asks what thinking about temporality and (bad) feelings?especially disappointment?unlocks not only for the student of present-day South African literatures, but of and postcolonial and contemporary world literatures and cultures more broadly.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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