- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Prologue
- Introduction
- Proemion
- 1 Fuzzy Connections
- 2 Pope’s Trojan Geography
- 3 Sophoclean Journeys
- 4 Cicero: Gentleman and Orator
- 5 Eating Eumolpus
- 6 After Freud
- 7 The Price of the Modern
- 8 Composite Cultures, Chaos Wor(l)ds
- 9 Time, Free Verse, and the Gods of Modernism
- 10 Lost in Nostalgia
- 11 No Consolation
- 12 The Abject Eidos
- 13 What’s Hecuba to him…that he should weep for her?
- 14 Modernism’s Nostalgics, Nostalgia’s Modernity
- 15 Mediating Trauma
- 16 History as Traumatic Memory
- 17 Reading the Invisible with Cees Nooteboom, Walter Benjamin, and Alberto Giacometti
- Conclusion
- Epilogue
- Index
Epilogue
Epilogue
- Chapter:
- (p.347) Epilogue
- Source:
- Tradition, Translation, Trauma
- Author(s):
Derek Attridge
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This epilogue describes two scenes which reflect many of the threads woven skilfully through the chapters in this volume. The first scene is a shanty town in South Africa in the late 1980s. An elderly white woman, Mrs Curren, has agreed to assist in the search for her domestic servant’s son, and is now being led by her servant’s cousin to the site of the violence that they fear has engulfed him. The second scene takes place in the back garden of a suburban Cape Town house in 1955, where a 15-year-old boy, John Coetzee, is ‘mooning around’ at a loose end when he hears, coming from the next-door house, unfamiliar music.
Keywords: South Africa, shanty town, Cape Town
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Prologue
- Introduction
- Proemion
- 1 Fuzzy Connections
- 2 Pope’s Trojan Geography
- 3 Sophoclean Journeys
- 4 Cicero: Gentleman and Orator
- 5 Eating Eumolpus
- 6 After Freud
- 7 The Price of the Modern
- 8 Composite Cultures, Chaos Wor(l)ds
- 9 Time, Free Verse, and the Gods of Modernism
- 10 Lost in Nostalgia
- 11 No Consolation
- 12 The Abject Eidos
- 13 What’s Hecuba to him…that he should weep for her?
- 14 Modernism’s Nostalgics, Nostalgia’s Modernity
- 15 Mediating Trauma
- 16 History as Traumatic Memory
- 17 Reading the Invisible with Cees Nooteboom, Walter Benjamin, and Alberto Giacometti
- Conclusion
- Epilogue
- Index