History lives in these streets: reading place and urban disorder in three post-apartheid Johannesburg novels

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dc.contributor.advisorClarkson, Carrolen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorO'Shaughnessy, Emma Vivianen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-06T11:57:43Z
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dc.date.issued2012en_ZA
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dc.description.abstractIn the following thesis I use three post-apartheid South African novels, namely Ivan Vladislavi's The Exploded View, Marlene Van Niekerk’s Triomf and Kgebetli Moele’s Room 207, to argue for the persistence of geopathic disorders in post-apartheid Johannesburg. I use the protagonists in the novels and their intertwined relationships with setting as nodes through which to examine the complex and disordered place of this contemporary urban environment and to show how the city’s apartheid history informs the present. I suggest that these narratives portray conflicted instances of integration, inhabitation and navigation within this city because of the presences of historical forms and patterns which continue to colour the experience of life within the changing city. I argue that the past is still present within the built structures of the city and in people’s perceptions of space.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationO'Shaughnessy, E. V. (2012). <i>History lives in these streets: reading place and urban disorder in three post-apartheid Johannesburg novels</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11535en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationO'Shaughnessy, Emma Vivian. <i>"History lives in these streets: reading place and urban disorder in three post-apartheid Johannesburg novels."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11535en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationO'Shaughnessy, E. 2012. History lives in these streets: reading place and urban disorder in three post-apartheid Johannesburg novels. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - O'Shaughnessy, Emma Vivian AB - In the following thesis I use three post-apartheid South African novels, namely Ivan Vladislavi's The Exploded View, Marlene Van Niekerk’s Triomf and Kgebetli Moele’s Room 207, to argue for the persistence of geopathic disorders in post-apartheid Johannesburg. I use the protagonists in the novels and their intertwined relationships with setting as nodes through which to examine the complex and disordered place of this contemporary urban environment and to show how the city’s apartheid history informs the present. I suggest that these narratives portray conflicted instances of integration, inhabitation and navigation within this city because of the presences of historical forms and patterns which continue to colour the experience of life within the changing city. I argue that the past is still present within the built structures of the city and in people’s perceptions of space. DA - 2012 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2012 T1 - History lives in these streets: reading place and urban disorder in three post-apartheid Johannesburg novels TI - History lives in these streets: reading place and urban disorder in three post-apartheid Johannesburg novels UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11535 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/11535
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationO'Shaughnessy EV. History lives in these streets: reading place and urban disorder in three post-apartheid Johannesburg novels. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature, 2012 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11535en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of English Language and Literatureen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherEnglish Language and Literatureen_ZA
dc.titleHistory lives in these streets: reading place and urban disorder in three post-apartheid Johannesburg novelsen_ZA
dc.typeDoctoral Thesis
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