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Browsing Research Articles (Afrikaans) by UP Author "Burger, Bibi"
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Burger, Bibi
(Routledge, 2020)
Mary Watson’s gothic novel, The Cutting Room (2013), deals with a woman who does not feel at home in her house. Her unease can be attributed to her conflicted feelings about being a wife in South Africa’s colonial and ...
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Burger, Bibi
(Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2018)
Deon Meyer’s post-apocalyptic novel, Fever, opens with Nico Storm, the narrator,
and his father being attacked by dogs. Nico is only thirteen years old, but is
forced to shoot the dogs to rescue his father. This incident ...
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Burger, Bibi
(Taylor and Francis, 2020)
No abstract available.
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Burger, Bibi
(Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2022)
The Afrikaans poetry collections grond/Santekraam (2011) by Ronelda S. Kamfer and bientang (2020) by Jolyn Phillips both centralise the ocean and
both deal with attempts at recovering repressed black histories. Apart from ...
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Burger, Bibi
(Routledge, 2019)
In Mark Fisher’s Ghosts of My Life he describes various small-scale utopian projects dating from the 1960s to the 1980s, including brutalist architecture, squats, industrial music and experimental film. According to Fisher, ...
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Maessen, Francine; Burger, Bibi; Smit, Mathilda
(Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2022)
In this review article, we focus on the depiction of the transnational and translingual as a state of being in-between in Klara du Plessis’s debut poetry
collection, Ekke (2018). This in-between state has implications for ...
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Burger, Bibi; Engels, Laura
(University of Pretoria, Department of Visual Arts, 2019)
In this article, the focus is on Black Panther: a nation under our feet, a comic book series written by American public intellectual Ta-Nehisi Coates. The point of departure is Coates’s idea of ‘the Mecca’, a term he uses ...
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Burger, Bibi
(Routledge, 2022)
Nowhere cool’, a short story by Ama Ata Aidoo, is divided into two sections. In the first, a child sits in a classroom in what is presumably Ghana, feeling alienated by the “familiar things that were begin chased away by ...
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Burger, Bibi
(Routledge, 2020)
In this article, the representations of the ocean in Afrikaans poet Ronelda S. Kamfer’s grond/Santekraam (2011) and in ‘Water’, a poem in Koleka Putuma’s Collective Amnesia (2017) are compared. Meg Samuelson’s identification ...
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Burger, Bibi
(Taylor and Francis, 2020)
The science fiction novel Triangulum (Cape Town: Umuzi, 2019) by Masande Ntshanga challenges both the association of the queer with the urban and the use of the city as symbol for the future in science fiction. The ...
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Smit, Mathilda; Burger, Bibi; Linde, Janien
(Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2022)
Die Ontlaeringprojek, geloods in 2018, het ten doel om platforms te skep wat dit moontlik maak om die pedagogiek
van Afrikaans te herverbeel. Die fokus was aanvanklik op die letterkunde, maar reeds van die begin af was ...
