The book investigates South African historical novels as foundational narratives that mediate between history and story in order to conjure up the myth of the modern nation. By exploring the rhetoric of plot patterns and the semantics of recurrent motifs, it discusses the ways in which texts produce a literary discourse about the past which aims at forming or consolidating a national consciousness.
Fiction, History and Nation in South Africa
OBOE, ANNALISA
1994
Abstract
The book investigates South African historical novels as foundational narratives that mediate between history and story in order to conjure up the myth of the modern nation. By exploring the rhetoric of plot patterns and the semantics of recurrent motifs, it discusses the ways in which texts produce a literary discourse about the past which aims at forming or consolidating a national consciousness.
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