Colonization, violence, and narration in white South African writing : André Brink, Breyten Breytenbach, and J.M. Coetzee
by
 
Jolly, Rosemary Jane, 1963-

Title
Colonization, violence, and narration in white South African writing : André Brink, Breyten Breytenbach, and J.M. Coetzee

Author
Jolly, Rosemary Jane, 1963-

ISBN
9780821411308
 
9780821411315
 
9781868142972

Personal Author
Jolly, Rosemary Jane, 1963-

Publication Information
Athens : Ohio University Press ; Johannesburg : Witwatersrand University Press, c1996.

Physical Description
xvii, 179 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents
Introduction: Susan Barton's Dilemma -- Violence, Afrikaner Liberalism, and the Fiction of Andre Brink. The Brinkian Witness to Violence: A Dry White Season. Race, Sex, and Historical Narrative: Violence(s) in A Chain of Voices -- Breyten Breytenbach's Prison Writings. Breyten Breytenbach's Mouroir: Producing His-Story Without Reproducing Violation. The Relationship Between Confession and Autobiography in The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist -- Forms of Violence in J. M. Coetzee's Dusklands and Waiting for the Barbarians. The Gun as Copula: Colonization, Rape, and the Question of Pornographic Violence in Dusklands. "Into the Dark Chamber": Colonization, Inquisition, and Torture in Waiting for the Barbarians -- Conclusion: The Narrative 'Loses its Voice'.

Personal Subject
Brink, André P. (André Philippus), 1935-2015-Criticism and interpretation.
 
Breytenbach, Breyten-Criticism and interpretation.
 
Coetzee, J. M., 1940--Criticism and interpretation.

Subject Term
Afrikaans fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
 
South African fiction (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
 
Violence in literature.


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