Necrophiliac Narration and the Business of Friends: Damon Galgut’s The Good Doctor

Title: Necrophiliac Narration and the Business of Friends: Damon Galgut’s The Good Doctor
Creator: Marais, Mike
Date: 2014
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/144159
Identifier: vital:38316
Identifier: DOI: 10.1080/17533171.2014.918406
Description: Set in the period following South Africa’s first democratic elections, Damon Galgut’s The Good Doctor traces the friendship that develops between two doctors working at a rural hospital. While it does not deal overtly with the politics of the “new” South Africa, the novel’s treatment of friendship, which cuts across the distinction between the private and the public, reflects obliquely on the nature of the emerging democratic dispensation. In this paper, I explore the link that Galgut constructs between friendship and community, and argue that his portrayal of the former points to the possibility of a form of community that is premised on a “common strangeness.”
Format: 16 pages, pdf
Language: English
Relation: Safundi, Marais, M., 2014. Necrophiliac Narration and the Business of Friends: Damon Galgut’s The Good Doctor. Safundi, 15(4), pp.455-470., Safundi volume 15 number 4 455 470 May 2014 1543-1304
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RU Department of Literary Studies in English

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