Meaningful Architectures: Space and Text in Ivan Vladislavić

  • Maria Paola Guarducci Roma Tre University
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i6.9500
Keywords: Ivan Vladislavić, South African literature, apartheid, transition, post-apartheid

Abstract

This article focuses on urban/political/linguistic transformations in transitional and post-apartheid Johannesburg, as they emerge in two novels by the South African writer Ivan Vladislavić: The Folly (1993) and The Exploded View (2004). Analysing the connections between architecture and writing in these texts, this article shows how Vladislavić’s metaphorical narrative offers fresh insights into old questions such as the relationship between engagement and literature in South Africa.

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Author Biography

Maria Paola Guarducci, Roma Tre University

Maria Paola Guarducci (PhD in CompLit) is Associate professor of English Literature at Roma Tre University. She has published on African novels in English, Victorian and contemporary British literature, South African literature. She is author of Dopo l’interregno. Il romanzo sudafricano e la transizione (2008) and of articles published in Italian and English on Jane Austen, W.M. Thackeray, Amy Levy, Joseph Conrad, Samuel Beckett, Sam Selvon, George Lamming, Monica Ali, J.M. Coetzee, etc. Together with Francesca Terrenato, she has just completed a new book, In-verse. Poesia femminile dal Sudafrica.

Published
2022-11-28
How to Cite
GuarducciM. P. (2022). Meaningful Architectures: Space and Text in Ivan Vladislavić. SigMa - Rivista Di Letterature Comparate, Teatro E Arti Dello Spettacolo, (6), 234-250. https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i6.9500
Issue
No 6 (2022): Like a Prayer. Forms of the Religiousness and the Sacred in Contemporary Writings and Arts (1990-2020)
Section
Varia

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