Does South African Literature Still Exist? Or: South African Literature is Dead, Long Live Literature in South Africa
Tags: SOUTH African literature -- History; SOUTH African literature (English); AFRIKAANS literature; APARTHEID in literature; POLITICS & literature; VAN Niekerk, Marlene; COETZEE, J. M., 1940-; HOUELLEBECQ, Michel, 1958-
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A literary critique is offered for the works of South African author Marlene Van Niekerk, including "Triomf," "Agaat," and "Memorandum: A Story with Paintings." Introductory comments are given noting Van Niekerk's description and treatment of embodiment and space within her novels. Connections...
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This text seeks to rethink the relationship between literature and citizenship or, more generally, identity. It does so by analysing two recent South-African novels, i.e. J.M Coetzee's Disgrace (1999) and Marlene van Niekerk's Agaat (2006). Both Disgrace and Agaat are examples of how the...
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In this article the author discusses gardening in South African literature. The act of gardening and the symbolism of it are examined. The gardener protagonist of the novel "Life and Times of Michael K," by J. M. Coetzee, and the critique of it by fellow South African writer Nadine Gordimer, are...
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This article returns to the original Afrikaans version of Marlene van Niekerk's Triomf (1994), proposing that we read the novel as radically subverting Afrikaner nationalist thought on a textual as well as thematic level. Van Niekerk's use of demotic language and pervasive code-switching is...
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