Something Hungry And Wild Is Still Calling: Post-Apartheid Gothic

Mélanie Joseph-Vilain (1, 2)

1 TIL - Centre Interlangues - Texte, Image, Langage
2 TIL - Centre Interlangues : texte, image, langage [Dijon]

The postcolonial Gothic is now a mode widely covered by literary criticism, but South Africa has often been left out of investigations. This paper argues that only now that apartheid has ended can writers and critics explore how the Gothic manifests itself in South African literature. Showing possible connections between the postcolonial Gothic and recent South African fiction, it seeks to define a new category that can help define the contours of the literary field in South Africa: post-apartheid Gothic.

Mots clés: Post-apartheid South Africa; Gothic Novel; Postcolonial literature; Genre Theory

Domaines: Littératures

Mélanie Joseph-Vilain. Something Hungry And Wild Is Still Calling: Post-Apartheid Gothic. Commonwealth Essays and Studies, 2012, Reappraisals, 34 (2), pp.61-70. ⟨10.4000/ces.5493⟩. ⟨halshs-01074960⟩