This 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.
Afrikanerdom Revisited: la satira come strategia postcoloniale in Devil’s Valley di André Brink
Linda FiasconiPrimo
2019-01-01
Abstract
This 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.File in questo prodotto:
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