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Doomed to walk the night

ghostly communities and promises in the novels of Alex la Guma

María J López

pp. 123-140

Abstract

the word “communism” stands as an emblem of the desire to discover or rediscover a place of community at once beyond social divisions and beyond subordination to technopolitical dominion, and thereby beyond such wasting away of liberty, of speech, or of simple happiness as comes about whenever these become subjugated to the exclusive order of privatization. .. (1)

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Published in:

Martín Salván Paula, Rodríguez Salas Gerardo, Jiménez Heffernan Julián (2013) Community in twentieth-century fiction. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Pages: 123-140

DOI: 10.1057/9781137282842_6

Full citation:

López María J (2013) „Doomed to walk the night: ghostly communities and promises in the novels of Alex la Guma“, In: P. Martín Salván, G. Rodríguez Salas & J. Jiménez Heffernan (eds.), Community in twentieth-century fiction, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 123–140.