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Author Jolly, Rosemary Jane, 1963-

Title Colonization, violence, and narration in white South African writing : André Brink, Breyten Breytenbach, and J.M. Coetzee / Rosemary Jane Jolly
Published Athens : Ohio University Press ; Johannesburg : Witwatersrand University Press, [1996]
©1996

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Description xvii, 179 pages ; 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'
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-172) and index
Subject Breytenbach, Breyten -- Criticism and interpretation.
Breytenbach, Breyten, 1939- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Brink, Andr ̌Philippus, 1935- -- Criticism and interpretation
Brink, André P. (André Philippus), 1935-2015 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Coetzee, J. M., 1940- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Afrikaans fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
South African fiction (English) -- History and criticism.
South African fiction (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Violence in literature.
LC no. 95017570
ISBN 0821411306
0821411314 (paperback)
1868142973 (paperback: Johannesburg)