The Aesthetic of Cognitive Mapping Couched in the Farm Chronotope of The Promise
Farm in The Promise,a postmodernist novel by Damon Galgut,acts as a narrative chronotope through which the aesthetics and historicity of the novel is expressed.The novel tries to condense and visualize 32 years'history of apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa in the space of a farm.Focusing on the metaphorical spaces including houses,cars and cemeteries,the narrative offers us an abstract yet stereoscopic picture through which the reader is compelled to see the social structure of South Africa from 1986 to 2018,and thus to know its politics,the operation system of the cross-nation capital,racial and class struggles,and the emotional and ethical responses of the individuals.As a result,the narrative forms an aesthetic of cognitive mapping,which,according to Fredric Jameson,is committed to unwrap the totality of the social structure.
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