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Over the last few decades postmodernist literature and criticism have rejected the idea of a white, western, male monoculture. Elements of Derridean and Foucauldian thought have penetrated to every level of literary ...

The realisation of the effects of the so-called “linguistic turn” and different thought associated with deconstruction and postmodernism has been an important presence in Brink’s oeuvre since On the Contrary (1993). In ...

Between the threat of forgetting on the one hand and the reprobation to remember on the other, three aspects of knowledge about the past are investigated in Karel Schoeman’s Hierdie lewe (This life) with references to the ...

The experience of the passage of time and our attempts to remember the past is central in Elsa Joubert’s Die reise van Isobelle (1995) (translated in English as Isobelle’s Journey). In this novel memory and the importance ...

In Andre Brink's Devil's Valley the emphasis falls on stories. The important role that narratives play in a community to create a history and an identity for that community and for individuals in the community, is illustrated. ...

Following his death a high number of tributes to André Brink had been published. A common denominator that ran through these tributes was the mention time and again of the life-changing effect his work had on people’s ...

In reviews of the postmodemist novel, Suidpunt-jazz, certain value judgements are made. The norms on which these assessments are based are examined by using a model of Boonstra (1979). According to this model, coherence ...

Karel Schoeman’s novel, Die uur van die engel (The hour of the angel) (1995), seems to invite a deconstructive reading as the impossibility to represent an event (understood in Derridean terms as unpredictable and singular) ...

Postmodernisme word dikwels beskou as 'n voortsetting van die Modernisme omdat die rede deur middel van die rede ondergrawe word - dat dit dus nie werklik 'n breuk met die Rede is nie. Dit is waar dat die postmodernisme ...