n Alledaagse andersheid : n ondersoek na Lauren Beukes se Zoo city as voorbeeld van heterotopiese literatuur, met verwysing naAnimals people deur Indra Sinha en Ikabod

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In the first part of this thesis Foucault's concept of heterotopia is used to investigate the differencebetween narrative complexity and complexity itself. Lauren Beukes's novel Zoo City is analyzed withinthe framework of heterotopic literature. The question is asked whether the novel illustrates the'liberated imagination Gerald Gaylard refers to – '[an imagination that] can lay the foundations forthe resolution of many a complex and sensitive post-colonial tribulation Africa must wrest with(Wertlen, 2011:16) – or whether Beukes's Zoo City is rather – as Corrigall (2013:18) suggests aboutThe Shining Girls (2013) – a 'cop-out; [alleviating] the need to negotiate the sometimes irreconcilablesocio-political issues of our times.In comparison I discuss Indra Sinha's Animal's People as an example of heterotopic literature. Withthis analysis I want to show what the difference is between a novel in which heterotopic spaces andaspects can be found and a novel which constitutes a critical-ethical heterotopia in itself.The second part of the thesis is a novel titled Ikabod. In the novel issues around conservation, decline,and the economy and politics of survival are investigated.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University