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Willemse, Hein (Heinrich Stephen Samuel)
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dc.date.accessioned |
2012-02-08T11:10:56Z |
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dc.date.available |
2012-02-08T11:10:56Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2012 |
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dc.description.abstract |
The Orange Earth is discussed here as a fictionalised autobiographical account in which the Afrikaans poet and playwright, Adam Small, reflects on the impact of apartheid, creating a counternarrative of a marginalised life during that political system. In the play, presented essentially as a play of ideas, the Coloured main character Johnny Adams, the fictionalised alter ego of the author, plants a bomb that kills a white child and much of the action involves his rationalization of his deed of terror. The play references the cultural and linguistic relationship between Coloured and white Afrikaans-speaking people, and the former's humiliation and exclusion under the apartheid policy. It is argued inter alia that Small's choice of English as a language of literary expression could be interpreted as part of a counterdiscourse on cultural disaffection and political disillusion just as his option of urban violence as a solution to apartheid, his "cry for citizenship", amounts to a desperate act rather than one of revolutionary violence. The article concludes with a discussion on the multiple meanings associated with the title that serves as a metaphor for the countermemory of Small's narrative. |
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dc.description.librarian |
nf2012 |
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http://www.letterkunde.up.ac.za/ |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Willemse, H 2012, 'Outobiografie en herinnering as verset in Adam Small se The Orange Earth', Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 70-81. |
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dc.identifier.issn |
0041-476X |
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dc.identifier.other |
10.4314/tvl.v49i1.6 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2263/18053 |
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dc.language.iso |
Afrikaans |
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dc.publisher |
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie |
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dc.rights |
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie |
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dc.subject |
Afrikaans culture |
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dc.subject |
Anti-apartheid literature |
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dc.subject |
Revolutionary violence |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Small, Adam, 1936- .The Orange Earth |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Apartheid in literature |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Autobiographical drama, English -- South Africa |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Race relations in literature |
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dc.title |
Outobiografie en herinnering as verset in Adam Small se The Orange Earth |
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dc.title.alternative |
Autobiography and memory as resistance in Adam Small's The Orange Earth |
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dc.type |
Article |
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