Re-writing history: André Brink’s An Act of Terror (1991) and On the Contrary (1993)

This article analyses the two different approaches to history and its representation demonstrated in Brink’s novels An Act of Terror (1991) and On the Contrary (1993) in terms of a response to the controversial influence of postmodernism on the historical novel in South Africa today. Although the fi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Louise Viljoen
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: Scriber Editorial Systems 1995-01-01
Series:Koers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship
Online Access:https://www.koersjournal.org.za/index.php/koers/article/view/644