HISTORY AND THE INSCRIPTIONS OF TORTURE AS PURGATORIAL FIRE IN ANDRÉ BRINK'S FICTION

Arguing that the narrative trope is a vital site of ideological contestation, Diala proposes to indicate how Andre Brink's theologizing of torture excludes it from history as a human production with obvious ideological implications and immerses it in a system not apprehensible in human terms. T...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Studies in the novel 2002-04, Vol.34 (1), p.60-80
1. Verfasser:	DIALA, ISIDORE
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	African literature Apartheid Biko, Stephen Black people Brink, Andre Philippus (1935-2015) Children Dry seasons Fear Fiction Ideology Literary criticism Novels Police Reading Rhetoric Said, Edward Soul South African literature Torture White people
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Zusammenfassung:	Arguing that the narrative trope is a vital site of ideological contestation, Diala proposes to indicate how Andre Brink's theologizing of torture excludes it from history as a human production with obvious ideological implications and immerses it in a system not apprehensible in human terms. This projection of torture onto an artificial ahistorical continuum made possible by Brink's paradoxical retention of the rhetoric of redemptive Christian suffering is shown to distance the reader from the history of apartheid by its happy, palatable resolution of the horror of torture in apocalyptic time.
ISSN:	0039-3827 1934-1512