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Critical Perspectives on Damon Galgut
About this book
When Damon Galgut won the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Promise in 2021, he was already an established writer. He had previously been shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2003 and 2010 and had been the author of eight novels and four plays, but before the success of The Promise, he remained relatively unknown to the general public outside South Africa. This volume is an attempt to engage an international set of specialists in postcolonial studies, South African literature, and, in several cases, established writers themselves, in a debate devoted entirely to Galgut's novels. This publication demonstrates that Galgut's work exceeds what readers tend to expect from post-apartheid white writing. Rather than offering the standard narratives of guilt, despair, and frustration, Galgut's novels, in dialogue with each other, and in dialogue with cultural and philosophical trends, propose a more intricate fabric. The writer's diagnosis of the human condition ultimately seems to transcend the constitutive turmoil and the crises, offering a vision of surprisingly and fascinatingly complex reality.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Repetition and Recursivity in Two Galgut Texts
- 3 Politics of (Not-)Belonging in Damon Galgut’s The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs
- 4 Of Love and Murder, and Nothing: The Political Moment of The Quarry
- 5 The Genuine Ambivalence of Detachment: Exploring the Socioecological Unconscious in Damon Galgut’s The Impostor
- 6 Between Two Worlds: Dybbuks and Doppelgängers in the Works of Deborah Levy and Damon Galgut
- 7 “Over and Done. Never Over, Never Done”: Unstable Identities and Haunted Voices in Damon Galgut’s The Promise
- 8 S/He Has No House: Shared Rooms, Displacement and Contested Property in Damon Galgut’s The Good Doctor, In a Strange Room, The Impostor and The Promise
- 9 A Literary Bromance: E. M. Forster’s Rites of Passage in Damon Galgut’s Arctic Summer
- 10 “Dominion over the Domestic Scene”? Damon Galgut’s The Promise as a Forsterian Plaasroman
- 11 First as Tragedy, Then as Farce: Humour and Disaffection in Damon Galgut’s The Promise
- 12 Damon Galgut and the Matter of South Africa
- Index