Getting Lost in Cape Town: Spatial and Temporal Dislocation in the South African Short Fiction Cycle

Abstract

As a form positioned somewhere between the coherence of the novel proper and the disconnectedness of the 'mere' collection of autonomous short stories, the short fiction cycle evinces a dualism which renders it particularly well suited to the representation of that tension between centripetal and centrifugal or entropie impulses which obtains in any society. It is a form especially apposite to the South African context, where the conflict between community, solidarity and national unity, on the one hand, and dissociation, segregation and Apartheid,' on the other, is notorious.

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