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Beyond Gold and Diamonds: Genre, the Authorial Informant, and the British South African Novel

Pablo, Upamanyu

Victorian Studies, 2023, Vol.65 (4), p.715-717 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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Beyond Gold and Diamonds: Genre, the Authorial Informant, and the British South African Novel
Autor: Pablo, Upamanyu
Assuntos: Brazilian culture ; Brazilian literature ; Colonialism ; Fiction ; Genre ; Imperative sentences ; Interpersonal relations ; Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria (1839-1908) ; Mines ; Novels ; Realism ; Schreiner, Olive (1855-1920)
É parte de: Victorian Studies, 2023, Vol.65 (4), p.715-717
Descrição: Unlike Schwarz's analysis of Brazil, Free's assessment concentrates not so much on the full spectrum of colonial social relations in South Africa, but on the correspondences between its political and literary currents. If Buchan's hero, Richard Hannay defends British empire with his ability to "read both landscape and people" of the South African veldt, Plaatje's Mhudi makes her case for Black female empowerment because she commands a vast oral archive of local and regional proverbs (158). Jo Latham, the protagonist of Page's Where the Strange Roads Go Down (1913), confesses that she feels "rubbed sore ... at every point" by her African "houseboy" and fantasizes about her husband torturing him with a sjambok (the infamous whip made of animal hide that mutilated and killed untold numbers of southern Africans) and punching him "under the left-side jaw" (qtd. in Free 117).
Editor: Bloomington: Indiana University Press
Idioma: Inglês

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