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Writing history : national identity in André Brink's post-apartheid fiction

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Authors
  • S.T. Lourens
Supervisors
  • M.G. Bal
Cosupervisors
  • M. Aydemir
Award date 28-10-2009
Number of pages 185
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
Document type PhD thesis
Note Research conducted at: Universiteit van Amsterdam
Language English
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Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Remembering and Forgetting in Present-day South Africa
Chapter 1: On the Contrary and the Impossibility of Text
Chapter 2: Imaginings of Sand: The Female Gothic in South Africa’s Desert
Chapter 3: Remembering Discovery in The First Life of Adamastor
Chapter 4: Under Cover of Silence: The Politics of the Fantastic in Devil’s Valley
Chapter 5: Intertwined Texts: Between Narrative and Desire in The Rights of Desire
Chapter 6: Moving Myths: Mythology and Metaphor in Praying Mantis
Epilogue: Writing the South African Self into Existence
Summary
Samenvatting (Dutch Summary)
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