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Afterlives: resurrecting the South African border war
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| author | Lazenby, Nicola |
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| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/12031 Afterlives: resurrecting the South African border war Lazenby, Nicola English Literature and Modernity Includes abstract. [W]hile the image of the SADF as a heinous perpetrator of Apartheid violence is undeniable, it is being complicated by the emergence of a range of recent cultural productions. Using Jacqui Thompson’s collection of SADF memoirs, An Unpopular War: From Afkak to Bosbefok (2006), and the revival of Anthony Akerman’s play, Somewhere on the Border (2012), this thesis explores how these cultural productions assert an alternative, individual, and humanised rendering of the SADF soldiers who experienced the Border War. The attempt to render these soldiers in an alternative light signals an anxiety regarding the way the SADF is remembered in contemporary South Africa. This anxiety resonates with broader issues of the role of “victimhood” in South Africa’s national identity in the aftermath of Apartheid. 2015-01-11T04:45:05Z 2015-01-11T04:45:05Z 2012 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12031 eng application/pdf Department of English Language and Literature Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | English Literature and Modernity Lazenby, Nicola Afterlives: resurrecting the South African border war |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Afterlives: resurrecting the South African border war |
| title_full | Afterlives: resurrecting the South African border war |
| title_fullStr | Afterlives: resurrecting the South African border war |
| title_full_unstemmed | Afterlives: resurrecting the South African border war |
| title_short | Afterlives: resurrecting the South African border war |
| title_sort | afterlives resurrecting the south african border war |
| topic | English Literature and Modernity |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12031 |
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