Add to ORKGThis paper intends to analyse satire as a postcolonial strategy, focusing specifically on Devil’s Valley (1998) by South African writer André Brink. Constructed as a ‘counter-narrative’, this magic-realist text offers a grotesque rewriting of Afrikaner history where humour acts deconstructively to dismantle monolithic assumptions and Eurocentric mythologies. Satire is thus investigated as a tool for socio-political critique aimed at envisioning new possibilities for the future of post-apartheid South Africa
Comedy during the apartheid era was an integral medium for indoctrination and pacification. It was a...
The paper aims at analysing the representation of South Africa and the Afrikaners in the novel-like...
Satire has the goal of reforming society and humans through the exposure and denunciation of evils. ...
This paper intends to analyse satire as a postcolonial strategy, focusing specifically on Devil’s Va...
In this paper I will discuss a literary trope that exemplifies the Manichean clarity to which Nixon...
Satire and power are inseparably interconnected. This study investigates satire and power as context...
Since 1994, whites in South Africa have been trying to accommodate themselves to their newly acquire...
Post-independence African plays have been characterized by the disillusionment of playwrights with A...
As a commentator on the enormities of the apartheid state, André Brink rose to international promine...
With the collapse of the apartheid state and the advent of black majority rule in 1994, the pillars ...
Gerugte van reën (Rumours of Rain, 1978) is one of André Brink's notorious political novels on apart...
International audienceThis paper shows how André Brink, dissident Afrikaans writer, tried to write a...
Summary Zakes Mda’s dramatic productions extend many frontiers, including polemics. Like some of his...
Although awarded the Commonwealth Prize for best novel from the African Region, as well as the Sund...
Through the ages satirists have exposed and ridiculed certain malpractices in society in their texts...
Comedy during the apartheid era was an integral medium for indoctrination and pacification. It was a...
The paper aims at analysing the representation of South Africa and the Afrikaners in the novel-like...
Satire has the goal of reforming society and humans through the exposure and denunciation of evils. ...
This paper intends to analyse satire as a postcolonial strategy, focusing specifically on Devil’s Va...
In this paper I will discuss a literary trope that exemplifies the Manichean clarity to which Nixon...
Satire and power are inseparably interconnected. This study investigates satire and power as context...
Since 1994, whites in South Africa have been trying to accommodate themselves to their newly acquire...
Post-independence African plays have been characterized by the disillusionment of playwrights with A...
As a commentator on the enormities of the apartheid state, André Brink rose to international promine...
With the collapse of the apartheid state and the advent of black majority rule in 1994, the pillars ...
Gerugte van reën (Rumours of Rain, 1978) is one of André Brink's notorious political novels on apart...
International audienceThis paper shows how André Brink, dissident Afrikaans writer, tried to write a...
Summary Zakes Mda’s dramatic productions extend many frontiers, including polemics. Like some of his...
Although awarded the Commonwealth Prize for best novel from the African Region, as well as the Sund...
Through the ages satirists have exposed and ridiculed certain malpractices in society in their texts...
Comedy during the apartheid era was an integral medium for indoctrination and pacification. It was a...
The paper aims at analysing the representation of South Africa and the Afrikaners in the novel-like...
Satire has the goal of reforming society and humans through the exposure and denunciation of evils. ...
