Summary The article considers the descendants of the original white settlers’ experience of space and place in terms of the perception of self and other as represented by the male protagonists who feature in three comparatively under-read novels of the post- apartheid period: John Conyngham’s The Lostness of Alice (1998), Damon Galgut’s The Good Doctor (2003) and Michiel Heyns’s Lost Ground (2011). After the election of a black-majority government, many white South African men feel that they can no longer negotiate a place that supplies them with a stable and secure sense of self. The novels’ three subjects, who exemplify the psychological condition of these men, endeavour to discover who they are and where they belong. Through the traversal of boundaries, the protagonists make connections with the outside world and the different other. The authors, likewise, stretch boundaries by implementing the narrative frame of the detective novel. To foreground the characters’ search for selfhood, belonging and meaning, reference is made in the article to aspects of identity formation in relation to the other, such as place, and the expansion of place by the navigation of boundaries.

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南非自我与他人的前景边界：爱丽丝、好医生和迷失之地的比较分析

总结 本文从对自我和他者的感知角度考虑了原始白人定居者对空间和地方的体验，以男性主人公为代表，这些男性主人公在后种族隔离时期的三部阅读量相对较低的小说中有所体现：约翰·康宁厄姆 (John Conyngham) 的小说。 The Lostness of Alice (1998), Damon Galgut 的 The Good Doctor (2003) 和 Michiel Heyns 的 Lost Ground (2011)。选举黑人大多数政府后，许多白南非男子觉得他们无法再谈判一个以稳定和安全的自我意识为他们提供的地方。小说的三个主题，体现了这些人的心理状况，努力发现他们是谁，他们属于哪里。通过穿越边界，主角与外界和不同的他者建立联系。同样，作者通过实施侦探小说的叙事框架来扩展边界。为了突出人物对自我、归属和意义的追寻，文章中提到了与他者相关的身份形成方面，例如地方，以及通过边界导航对地方的扩展。