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dc.contributor.author | Steenekamp, Carina![]() |
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dc.date.accessioned | 2023-03-09T10:35:17Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-03-09T10:35:17Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-09-18 | |
dc.description | This article is based on my PhD dissertation, “Movement through space in the works of Assia Djebar and André Brink”, completed under the supervision of Prof. Willie Burger at the University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa. The degree was awarded on 16 May 2022. | en_US |
dc.description | All English translations of excerpts from the novels are my own. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | South African author André Brink and the Algerian Assia Djebar have been described as a duo of literature and struggle. Various parallels exist between the authors’ oeuvres: both authors strive to create a chain of voices for those who have been ignored or silenced; they attempt to re-evaluate the colonial experience while problematising the complexities of present-day South Africa and Algeria; their narratives foreground language, space, and power struggles between coloniser and colonised, master and slave, man and woman. Their characters represent a desire for freedom and the need for resistance in the quest for liberation. In this article I focus on the comparable role of space, and more specifically spaces of exclusion, in a selection of the authors’ works. Postcolonial theories serve as a framework for establishing Brink and Djebar’s similar stance regarding the notion of exclusion. Amongst others, Homi Bhabha’s concept of the ‘beyond’ and Édouard Glissant’s notion of ‘relation’ are employed to strengthen arguments made concerning the characters’ desire for movement which results from them being excluded from certain spaces. In this article I demonstrate how their characters feel attracted to cross borders that exclude in a quest for inclusion. An endless, open, and powerful movement is the result of the opposing forces of exclusion and attraction their characters experience. | en_US |
dc.description.department | Afrikaans | en_US |
dc.description.librarian | am2023 | en_US |
dc.description.uri | http://www.letterkunde.up.ac.za/ | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Steenekamp, C. 2022, 'The power of exclusion in the works of Andre Brink and Assia Djebar', Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, vol. 59, no. 3, pp. 131-147. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0041-476X (print) | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2309-9070 (online) | |
dc.identifier.other | 10.17159/tl.v59i3.13304 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/90056 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie | en_US |
dc.rights | © 2022. Tydskrif vir Letterkunde. Published under a Creative Commons Attribution License. | en_US |
dc.subject | André Brink | en_US |
dc.subject | Assia Djebar | en_US |
dc.subject | Spaces | en_US |
dc.subject | Exclusion | en_US |
dc.subject | Isolation | en_US |
dc.subject | Postcolonial | en_US |
dc.title | The power of exclusion in the works of Andre Brink and Assia Djebar | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |