Whose 'Lost Ground'? Facets of Outsiderhood. Issue 1 (2nd January 2020)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Whose 'Lost Ground'? Facets of Outsiderhood. Issue 1 (2nd January 2020)
- Main Title:
- Whose 'Lost Ground'? Facets of Outsiderhood
- Authors:
- Dimitriu, Ileana
- Abstract:
- Abstract : The article considers the concept of 'home' and its experiential application in relation to Michiel Heyns's novel, Lost Ground . A prize-winning novel in South Africa, Lost Ground has taxed interpretation. Is it a detective novel, a novel of 'gay' relationships, or a novel of oblique rather than direct political observations on 'post-apartheid' South Africa? I argue that the novel is all the above, but tangentially. More centrally, I argue that Lost Ground explores commitment and non-commitment to both a home place and a place of exile; that Heyns is too subtle a novelist to promote an either/or response to a situation which, at least in the narrative, subjects despair to a muted redemption. If the protagonist does not find a home on his 'home visit, ' neither does he find equanimity in his thoughts of a return to London. Yet, his experience in his brief return to the town of his earlier life grants him fresh insight into his own vulnerability.
- Is Part Of:
- Current writing. Volume 32:Issue 1(2020)
- Journal:
- Current writing
- Issue:
- Volume 32:Issue 1(2020)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 32, Issue 1 (2020)
- Year:
- 2020
- Volume:
- 32
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2020-0032-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 10
- Page End:
- 23
- Publication Date:
- 2020-01-02
- Subjects:
- Michiel Heyns -- Lost Ground -- South African novel -- home/exile -- insider/outsider
Southern African literature (English) -- History and criticism -- Periodicals
Electronic journals
820.996805 - Journal URLs:
- http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/21288536.html ↗
http://currentwriting.ukzn.ac.za ↗
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcwr20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/1013929X.2020.1743027 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1013-929X
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
- View Content:
- Available online (eLD content is only available in our Reading Rooms) ↗
- Physical Locations:
- British Library DSC - BLDSS-3PM
British Library HMNTS - ELD Digital store - Ingest File:
- 22485.xml