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1	The black and its double : the crisis of self-representation in protest and ‘post’-protest black South African fiction Kenqu, Amanda Yolisa January 2015 (has links) This study explores the crisis of representation in black South African protest and ‘post’-apartheid literature. Conversant with the debates on the crisis of representation in black South African protest literature from the 1960s to the late 1980s, the dissertation proposes a re-reading of the ‘crisis’ by locating it in the black writer’s struggle for an aesthetic with which to express the existential crisis of blackness. I contend that not only protest but also contemporary or ‘post’-protest black South African literature exhibits a split or fractured mode of writing which is characterised by the displacement/unheimlichheid produced by colonialism and apartheid, as well as by the contentious nature of that which this literature endeavours to capture – the fraught identity of blackness. In my exploration of the split or double narratives of Mongane Serote’s To Every Birth Its Blood, K. Sello Duiker’s Thirteen Cents, and Kopano Matlwa’s Coconut, I examine the representation of blackness through the themes of violence, trauma, powerlessness, failure, and unhomeliness/unbelongingness – all of which suggest the lack of a solid foundation upon which to construct a stable black identity. This instability, I ultimately argue, suggests a move beyond an Afrocentric perspective on identity and traditional tropes of blackness towards a more processual, fluid, and permeable post-black politics. Blacks in literature Race in literature Protest literature, African (English) Mimesis in literature Blacks -- Race identity -- South Africa Duiker, K. Sello -- Thirteen cents Matlwa, Kopano -- Coconut
2	Temporality and the past: recollections of apartheid in selected South African novels in English Xaba, Andile 11 1900 (has links) The study provides a theoretical account for the representation of apartheid in South African fiction. Narrative strategies employed in the post-apartheid novels The innocence of roast chicken (Richards, 1996), The smell of apples (Behr, 1996), All we have left unsaid (Case, 2006) and Thirteen cents (Duiker, 2011) reveal that depictions of the past contribute to narrative structure and the production of meaning. Genettean temporal relations, namely narrative order, duration and frequency are a systematic method to analyse the selected novels, since it enables a contrast between the narrative past as the histoire, and the narrative present as the récit. Retrospective events are constructed as memories, thereby are complemented by Bergson’s psychological and philosophical theory in the analysis and interpretation of the dualistic interaction between the apartheid and post-apartheid temporal centres adopted within the novels. The representation of apartheid may be seen as sub-themes and time as configurations of temporal zones. / Afrikaans & Theory of Literature / M.A. (Theory of Literature) Gerard Genette Structuralism Narratology South African fiction Jo-Anne Richards Marc Behr Maxine Case K. Sello Duiker Henri Bergson Temporal relations Memory Recollections of apartheid in fiction Apartheid and gender Apartheid and guilt Apartheid and secrets 820.9968 Apartheid in literature South Africa -- In literature Collective memory in literature Recollection (Psychology) in literature Case, Maxine. All we have left unsaid Behr, Mark. Reuk van appels Duiker, K. Sello. Thirteen cents
3	Temporality and the past: recollections of apartheid in selected South African novels in English Xaba, Andile 11 1900 (has links) The study provides a theoretical account for the representation of apartheid in South African fiction. Narrative strategies employed in the post-apartheid novels The innocence of roast chicken (Richards, 1996), The smell of apples (Behr, 1996), All we have left unsaid (Case, 2006) and Thirteen cents (Duiker, 2011) reveal that depictions of the past contribute to narrative structure and the production of meaning. Genettean temporal relations, namely narrative order, duration and frequency are a systematic method to analyse the selected novels, since it enables a contrast between the narrative past as the histoire, and the narrative present as the récit. Retrospective events are constructed as memories, thereby are complemented by Bergson’s psychological and philosophical theory in the analysis and interpretation of the dualistic interaction between the apartheid and post-apartheid temporal centres adopted within the novels. The representation of apartheid may be seen as sub-themes and time as configurations of temporal zones. / Afrikaans and Theory of Literature / M. A. (Theory of Literature) Gerard Genette Structuralism Narratology South African fiction Jo-Anne Richards Marc Behr Maxine Case K. Sello Duiker Henri Bergson Temporal relations Memory Recollections of apartheid in fiction Apartheid and gender Apartheid and guilt Apartheid and secrets 820.9968 Apartheid in literature South Africa -- In literature Collective memory in literature Recollection (Psychology) in literature Case, Maxine. All we have left unsaid Behr, Mark. Reuk van appels Duiker, K. Sello. Thirteen cents

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