{"id":"https://openalex.org/W605107196","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511586286.007","title":"The post-apartheid sublime: rediscovering the extraordinary","display_name":"The post-apartheid sublime: rediscovering the extraordinary","publication_year":1998,"publication_date":"1998-01-22","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W605107196","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511586286.007","mag":"605107196"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1017/cbo9780511586286.007","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511586286.007","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511586286.007","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306462995","display_name":"Cambridge University Press eBooks","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310311721","host_organization_name":"Cambridge University Press","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310311721","https://openalex.org/P4310311702"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Cambridge University Press","University of Cambridge"],"type":"ebook platform"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Writing South Africa","raw_type":"book-chapter"},"volume":{"id":"https://openalex.org/W1969725115","display_name":"Writing South Africa"},"type":"book-chapter","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5050000239","display_name":"Graham Pechey","orcid":null,"observed_orcids":[]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I141584323","display_name":"University of Hertfordshire","ror":"https://ror.org/0267vjk41","country_code":"GB","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I141584323"]}],"countries":["GB"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Graham Pechey","raw_affiliation_strings":["University of Hertfordshire"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"University of Hertfordshire","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I141584323"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":1,"institutions_distinct_count":1,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5050000239"],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I141584323"],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":116.6812,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":47,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.99888199,"is_in_top_1_percent":true,"is_in_top_10_percent":true},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":89,"max":97},"biblio":{"volume":null,"issue":null,"first_page":"57","last_page":"74"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11717","display_name":"Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies","score":0.9878000020980835,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1208","display_name":"Literature and Literary Theory"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11717","display_name":"Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies","score":0.9878000020980835,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1208","display_name":"Literature and Literary Theory"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10011","display_name":"Literature: history, themes, analysis","score":0.002199999988079071,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1208","display_name":"Literature and Literary Theory"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11695","display_name":"South African History and Culture","score":0.0010000000474974513,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3312","display_name":"Sociology and Political Science"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/post-apartheid-literature","display_name":"post-apartheid literature","score":0.890999972820282},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/south-african-literature","display_name":"South African literature","score":0.7730000019073486},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/the-sublime","display_name":"sublime","score":0.6169999837875366},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/j-m-coetzee","display_name":"J. M. Coetzee","score":0.8769999742507935},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/the-master-of-petersburg","display_name":"The Master of Petersburg","score":0.9909999966621399},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/njabulo-ndebele","display_name":"Njabulo Ndebele","score":0.9259999990463257},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/fyodor-dostoevsky","display_name":"Fyodor Dostoevsky","score":0.8130000233650208},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/mikhail-bakhtin","display_name":"Bakhtin","score":0.9909999966621399},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/irony","display_name":"irony","score":0.6660000085830688},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/everyday-life","display_name":"everyday life","score":0.5820000171661377},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/national-culture","display_name":"national culture","score":0.4390000104904175},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/russian-literature","display_name":"Russian literature","score":0.628000020980835},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/modernity","display_name":"modernity","score":0.36899998784065247}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2776717531","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q999803","display_name":"Sublime","level":2,"score":0.9149861335754395},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C107038049","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35986","display_name":"Aesthetics","level":1,"score":0.4174855351448059},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C142362112","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q735","display_name":"Art","level":0,"score":0.28344714641571045}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1017/cbo9780511586286.007","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511586286.007","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511586286.007","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306462995","display_name":"Cambridge University Press eBooks","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310311721","host_organization_name":"Cambridge University Press","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310311721","https://openalex.org/P4310311702"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Cambridge University Press","University of Cambridge"],"type":"ebook platform"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Writing South Africa","raw_type":"book-chapter"}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"grobid_xml":false,"pdf":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":0,"referenced_works":[],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W2053102733","https://openalex.org/W980531066","https://openalex.org/W1587365815","https://openalex.org/W628589568","https://openalex.org/W2236418907","https://openalex.org/W7095543176","https://openalex.org/W2038000961","https://openalex.org/W2549086466","https://openalex.org/W2288581307","https://openalex.org/W2091437109"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"My":[0],"concern":[1],"in":[2,77,132,164,190,200,219,243],"this":[3,152],"essay":[4],"is":[5,30,97],"to":[6,38,65,98,150,186,188,197,215],"offer":[7],"an":[8],"account":[9],"of":[10,27,57,90,111,120,135,159,170,178,193,222,234,238],"the":[11,24,43,52,55,58,69,78,92,94,108,133,136,157,198,208,220,229,239,250],"unfolding":[12],"post":[13],"apartheid":[14,80],"condition":[15,41,53],"within":[16],"which":[17,122],"contemporary":[18],"South":[19,139],"African":[20],"writing":[21,33,59],"takes":[22],"place;":[23],"working":[25],"premise":[26],"my":[28,148,245],"investigation":[29],"that":[31,32,96,125,138,177,233],"(at":[34],"its":[35,39],"best)":[36],"relates":[37],"environing":[40],"as":[42,217],"latter's":[44],"most":[45,202],"fully":[46],"reflexive":[47],"self-knowledge.":[48],"In":[49],"thus":[50,205],"reading":[51],"through":[54],"optic":[56],"(and":[60],"vice":[61],"versa),":[62],"I":[63,154],"wish":[64],"position":[66],"myself":[67],"beyond":[68],"space":[70,153],"opened":[71],"up":[72],"by":[73],"Njabulo":[74],"Ndebele":[75],"when,":[76],"dying":[79],"years,":[81],"he":[82],"called":[83],"so":[84],"eloquently":[85],"for":[86,247],"a":[87,100,103,191],"post-heroic":[88],"culture":[89],"irony,":[91],"local,":[93],"ordinary:":[95],"say,":[99],"culture,":[101],"or":[102],"literature,":[104],"preoccupied":[105],"not":[106],"with":[107,118],"polar":[109],"conflicts":[110],"\u2018the":[112,115],"people\u2019":[113],"versus":[114],"state\u2019":[116],"but":[117],"textures":[119],"life":[121],"have":[123,129,155],"eluded":[124],"epic":[126],"battle":[127],"and":[128,163,224,226],"grown":[130],"insouciantly":[131],"cracks":[134],"structures":[137],"Africa's":[140],"fraught":[141],"modernity":[142],"has":[143],"historically":[144],"thrown":[145],"up.":[146],"As":[147],"guide":[149],"occupying":[151],"enlisted":[156],"work":[158,181],"J.":[160],"M.":[161],"Coetzee,":[162],"particular":[165],"his":[166,201],"novel":[167],"The":[168],"Master":[169],"Petersburg":[171],"(1994).":[172],"Seemingly":[173],"poles":[174],"apart":[175],"from":[176,207],"Ndebele,":[179],"Coetzee's":[180,236],"will":[182],"nonetheless":[183],"be":[184],"seen":[185],"stand":[187],"Ndebele's":[189],"relation":[192],"illuminating":[194],"complementarity.":[195],"More":[196],"point:":[199],"egregious":[203],"digression":[204],"far":[206],"\u2018South":[209],"African\u2019":[210],"theme,":[211],"Coetzee":[212],"licenses":[213],"me":[214],"wander":[216],"extravagantly":[218],"territory":[221],"history":[223],"theory":[225],"indeed":[227],"into":[228],"same":[230],"national":[231],"culture:":[232],"Russia.":[235],"use":[237],"late":[240],"Dostoevsky":[241],"is,":[242],"short,":[244],"precedent":[246],"drawing":[248],"on":[249],"early":[251],"Bakhtin.":[252]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2018,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2017,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2016,"cited_by_count":3},{"year":2015,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2014,"cited_by_count":1}],"updated_date":"2026-10-12T09:40:04.860316","created_date":"2016-06-24T00:00:00"}