1st Edition
Refractive Realisms Literature, Culture and the South African Township
By Megan Jones
Copyright 2025
168 Pages
4 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge India
168 Pages
4 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge India
168 Pages
4 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge India
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Refractive Realisms positions the township as a lens through which to engage the South African canon, endeavouring to provide a reorientation towards a black creative archive and surfacing under-represented forms of literary and cultural expression.
The book converses with the long history of realism in black South African writing to show how the refractive realisms of the contemporary... Read more
1. Reflections and Refractions 2. Refracted Lives 3. After Consumption 4. Ghostly Temporalities 5. The Place of Skin 6. Waste, Prejudice and Possibility 7. Conclusion: The Township Lens
Biography
Megan Jones teaches in the English Studies Department at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
