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

Title:

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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Summary

The representation of pain and suffering in narrative form is an ongoing ethical issue in contemporary South African literature. Can violence be represented without sensationalistic effects, or, alternatively, without effects that tend to be conservative because they place the reader in a position of superiority over the victim or the perpetrator?

Jolly looks at three primary South African authors -- Andr#65533; Brink, Breyten Breytenbach, and J. M. Coetzee -- to consider violence in the context of apartheid and colonialism and their inherent patriarchies.

Jolly also discusses the violence attendant upon the act of narration in the broader context of critiques of Kafka, Freud, Hegel, the postcolonial critics Jan Mohamed and Bhabha, and feminists such as Susan Suleiman.