Lara Buxbaum
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3087929 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Lara Buxbaum |
| PRENOMES | Lara |
| SOBRENOME | Buxbaum |
| ASSINATURA | BUXBAUM L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of the Witwatersrand |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 3 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Representations of Xenophobia and Animalisation in Zebra Crossing, Zoo City and Wolf, Wolf
This article explores the depiction of xenophobia and animalisation in three recent South African novels to determine whether these narratives offer ways of reimagining relations with others. It is specifically interested in the depiction of encounters with those dehumanised by xenophobic discourse as well as the ways in which animals figure in these texts. The texts under discussion are: Meg Vandermerwe’s Zebra Crossing (2013), Lauren Beukes’s Z…
Risking intimacy in contemporary South African fiction
Intimacy remains under-theorised in South African fiction. This essay therefore focuses on selected works which all have in common a re-imagining of risk and intimacy in post-apartheid fiction: Achmat Dangor’s Strange Pilgrimages: Short Stories (2013), Makhosazana Xaba’s Running and Other Stories (2013), Masande Ntshanga’s The Reactive (2014), S.J. Naudé’s The Alphabet of Birds (2014) and Stacy Hardy’s Because the Night (2015). Masande Ntshanga r…
Remembering the Self
This article explores the significance of the motif of bodies in fragments in Marlene van Niekerk's Triomf (1999) and Agaat (2006). It argues that van Niekerk's protagonists “speak” of their trauma primarily through their wounded bodies. The correlation between corporeal and narrative fragmentation is explored to determine whether remembering (or re-membering) can prove salutary. In both Triomf and Agaat, it is only when characters are faced with…
Representations of Xenophobia and Animalisation in Zebra Crossing, Zoo City and Wolf, Wolf
This article explores the depiction of xenophobia and animalisation in three recent South African novels to determine whether these narratives offer ways of reimagining relations with others. It is specifically interested in the depiction of encounters with those dehumanised by xenophobic discourse as well as the ways in which animals figure in these texts. The texts under discussion are: Meg Vandermerwe’s Zebra Crossing (2013), Lauren Beukes’s Z…
Risking intimacy in contemporary South African fiction
Intimacy remains under-theorised in South African fiction. This essay therefore focuses on selected works which all have in common a re-imagining of risk and intimacy in post-apartheid fiction: Achmat Dangor’s Strange Pilgrimages: Short Stories (2013), Makhosazana Xaba’s Running and Other Stories (2013), Masande Ntshanga’s The Reactive (2014), S.J. Naudé’s The Alphabet of Birds (2014) and Stacy Hardy’s Because the Night (2015). Masande Ntshanga r…
Remembering the Self
This article explores the significance of the motif of bodies in fragments in Marlene van Niekerk's Triomf (1999) and Agaat (2006). It argues that van Niekerk's protagonists “speak” of their trauma primarily through their wounded bodies. The correlation between corporeal and narrative fragmentation is explored to determine whether remembering (or re-membering) can prove salutary. In both Triomf and Agaat, it is only when characters are faced with…
Representations of Xenophobia and Animalisation in Zebra Crossing, Zoo City and Wolf, Wolf
This article explores the depiction of xenophobia and animalisation in three recent South African novels to determine whether these narratives offer ways of reimagining relations with others. It is specifically interested in the depiction of encounters with those dehumanised by xenophobic discourse as well as the ways in which animals figure in these texts. The texts under discussion are: Meg Vandermerwe’s Zebra Crossing (2013), Lauren Beukes’s Z…
Risking intimacy in contemporary South African fiction
Intimacy remains under-theorised in South African fiction. This essay therefore focuses on selected works which all have in common a re-imagining of risk and intimacy in post-apartheid fiction: Achmat Dangor’s Strange Pilgrimages: Short Stories (2013), Makhosazana Xaba’s Running and Other Stories (2013), Masande Ntshanga’s The Reactive (2014), S.J. Naudé’s The Alphabet of Birds (2014) and Stacy Hardy’s Because the Night (2015). Masande Ntshanga r…
Aesthetics (3 obras) · Art (3 obras) · Embodied cognition (2 obras) · Epistemology (2 obras) · Literature (2 obras) · Narrative (2 obras) · Sociology (2 obras) · Alienation (1 obras) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (1 obras) · Depiction (1 obras)