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Title
Fictioning Namibia as a Space of Desire: An Excursion into the Literary Space of Namibia During Colonialism, Apartheid and the Liberation Struggle |
Full text
http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/59947; http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-599475; http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/files/59947/9783906927091.pdf |
Date
2019 |
Author(s)
Baas, Renzo (59947) |
Abstract
Modern-day Namibian history has largely been shaped by three major eras: German colonial rule, South African apartheid occupation, and the Liberation Struggle. It was, however, not only military conquest that laid the cornerstone for the colony, but also how the colony was imagined, the dream of this colony. As a tool of discursive worldmaking, literature has played a major role in providing a framework in which to dream Namibia, first from outside its borders, and then from within. In Fictioning Namibia as a Space of Desire, Renzo Baas employs Henri Lefebvres city-countryside dialectic and reworks it in order to uncover how fictional texts played an integral part in the violent acquisition of a foreign territory. Through the production of myths around whiteness, German and South African authors designed a literary space in which control, destruction, and the dehumanisation of African peoples are understood as a natural order, one that is dictated by history and its linear continuation. These European texts are offset by Namibias first novel by an African, offering a counter-narrative to the colonial invention that was (German) South West Africa. |
Language
eng |
Type of publication
book; doc-type:book |
Format
application/pdf |
Rights
FID Afrikastudien |
Identifier
urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-599475; 3-906927-09-1; 978-3-906927-09-1 |
Repository
Frankfurt - University of Frankfurt
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