Looking at the dark sun : aspects of death war and the power of stories in Markus Zusak and Terry Pratchett’s novels

dc.contributor.authorSteyn, Dewald M.
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-23T05:44:05Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractIn this article, the author argues that Markus Zusak and Terry Pratchett make use of metafictional strategies as well as their respective anthropomorphic figures of death to allow readers, particularly young ones, to confront difficult topics, providing them with a glimpse of truth as far as their own mortality is concerned. In Zusak’s The Book Thief (2005) and Pratchett’s The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (2001), death, war and the nature of evil are considered through a fictional lens, allowing a certain amount of distancing between the young reader and these painful realities. Without naively underplaying the actuality of death, Zusak and Pratchett show how stories can ameliorate the traumatic and anxiety-inducing aspects of such events. Zusak challenges people’s notions of what young adult literature can portray, while Pratchett focuses on what it means not only to be a human being, but an ethical sentient being.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentEnglishen_ZA
dc.description.embargo2018-08-01
dc.description.librarianam2018en_ZA
dc.description.urihttps://upjournals.co.za/index.php/LISen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationSteyn, D.M. 2017, 'Looking at the dark sun : aspects of death war and the power of stories in Markus Zusak and Terry Pratchett’s novels', Mousaion, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 28-40.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0027-2639
dc.identifier.other10.25159/0027-2639/1434
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/64677
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherUnisa Pressen_ZA
dc.rights© Unisa Press 2018en_ZA
dc.subjectMarkus Zusaken_ZA
dc.subjectThe Book Thiefen_ZA
dc.subjectTerry Pratchetten_ZA
dc.subjectThe amazing Maurice and his educated rodentsen_ZA
dc.subjectDeathen_ZA
dc.subjectAnthropomorphismen_ZA
dc.subjectMetafictionen_ZA
dc.titleLooking at the dark sun : aspects of death war and the power of stories in Markus Zusak and Terry Pratchett’s novelsen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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