Canine agents in two South African short stories

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10836680
AutoresMathilda Slabbert (0000-0002-8990-5695, Stellenbosch University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2018
Volumen55
Número3
Fecha de publicación2018-08-27
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTydskrif vir letterkunde (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0041-476X • E-ISSN: 2309-9070
EditorialAcademy of Science of South Africa (PUBLISHER • ZA)
DOI10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.55i3.5509
OpenAlexW2904028365
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas14

This article explores the role of the figure of the dog in two contemporary South African short stories. It considers the metaphorical-cum-allegorical significance of the textual animal in these texts, asking how the writers use dogs as imaginative devices to draw attention to issues of gender, human emotions or psychoses, and the avowal or disavowal of (human and animal) agency. The aim is to engage with the writers’ evident wish both to comment on human-animal relationships and encounters in contemporary South African society, and to emphasise how these become effective, affective means of commenting on the continued inequities of post-apartheid society

Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy) · Art · Geography · Human animal · Social science · Sociology · Wish · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition