Dreaming of Freedom in South Africa: Literature between Critique and Utopia
- Submitting institution
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The Open University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1514359
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.3366/edinburgh/9781474430210.001.0001
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN
- 9781474430210
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2019
- 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
- This 232-page monograph provides the first book-length critical investigation of South African speculative fiction and political blueprints for the future. It is based on a sustained period of research involving the collection and analysis of a large body of unpublished material in South African archives (five two-month research trips, one for each of the chapters). Juxtaposing literary and political ‘dreams of freedom’ from the 1880s to the 1970s, the monograph provides a complex, extended and multi-layered analysis of South African literary and political texts. The monograph constitutes an original contribution to research in postcolonial literature, politics and history.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- 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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