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- Title
Understanding South African Xenophobia Through the Prism of J. M. Coetzee’s Summertime ‘Scenes from a Provincial Life’.
- Authors
Zajec, Polona
- Abstract
The xenophobic violence and discrimination that greets African migrants in post-apartheid South Africa highlights a social and political issue that threatens the idea(l) of the open pan-African society. The article looks at this xenophobia through the lens of J. M. Coetzee fictionalized memoir Summertime ‘Scenes from a Provincial Life’ and tries to develop a new understanding of South Africa’s relationship to the African ‘other' - or to the ‘other' Africa, relevant not only in the context of postcolonial studies but also in a more global perspective on social and cultural responses to processes of migration.
- Subjects
XENOPHOBIA in literature; COETZEE, J. M., 1940-; APARTHEID in literature; SEGREGATION in literature; POST-apartheid era in literature; SOUTH African social conditions
- Publication
Acta Neophilologica, 2017, Vol 50, Issue 1/2, p69
- ISSN
0567-784X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4312/an.50.1-2.69-82