Between the Kafkaesque and the Grotesque
The Monstrous Idea of South Africa in Fred Khumalo's Histriographic Metafiction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20156578 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Kgomotso Masemola (0000-0002-3303-1263, University of South Africa, corresponding author), Kgomotso M Masemola |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 16-29 |
| Publication date | 2015-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Literary Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0256-4718 • E-ISSN: 1753-5387 |
| Publisher | Unisa Press (PUBLISHER • ZA) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02564718.2015.1083169 |
| OpenAlex | W1719004087 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 12 |
In its insistence on the allegorical frame of South African transformations that attend the disfigured stature of a hero into a cauldron of Kafkaesque sterility and grotesque existence, this paper draws parallels between Gregor Samsa's bizarre hidden away condition and awkwardness of South Africa's insularity and exceptionalism. In arguing for an integrated idea of South Africa, on the basis of Mandela's pluriversalism, it offers a retrieval of South Africa's simultaneous worldliness and Africanness, further to provide a decolonial critique of what counts as a place called South Africa from an ontological perspective of what Lewis R. Gordon in the fashion of Frantz Fanon calls a zone of “being and non-being” (2005). However, it adds two further dimensions: the immanent conditions of becoming South Africa(n) and the drives that define the agency of attaining ontological totality for putative citizens and denizens in South Africa
Anthropocentrism · Art · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Exceptionalism · HERO · Literature · Metafiction · Parallels · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Sociology · African cultural and philosophical studies · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · South African History and Culture
Empire, Global Coloniality and African Subjectivity
Trauma, Resistance, Reconstruction in Post-1994 South African Writing
The repetition of the nomos of cultural memory in Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom and Mamphela Ramphele's A Life
On the Postcolony
The Subprime and the beautiful
Imagined communities
The Black Atlantic Meets the Indian Ocean
Loss of self
Reverie qua worldliness in the wilderness texts
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2021 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |