André Brink
Biographic Data
| ID | 1063622 |
|---|---|
| NAME | André Brink |
| GIVEN NAMES | André |
| FAMILY NAME | Brink |
| SIGNATURE | BRINK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rhodes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8658-2379 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Die kunste in 'n woelige wêreld
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices.
Deux figures historiques de la littérature Africaines
Deux grandes figures de la littérature africaine nous ont quittés il y a maintenant un an, en début de l’année 2015, étrangement nés à quelques mois près, avec un parcours si ressemblant dans l’esprit et la création! Leur disparition est une perte pour l’Afrique car elles ne sont plus là pour commenter les soubresauts politiques et humains de notre continent, pour créer des textes toujours profonds. C’est à Schloss Leopoldskron à Salzburg que j’a…
Articulating the Inarticulate
Writing South Africa
During the final years of the apartheid era and the subsequent transition to democracy, South African literary writing caught the world's attention as never before. Writers responded to the changing political situation and its daily impact on the country's inhabitants with works that recorded or satirised state-enforced racism, explored the possibilities of resistance and rebuilding, and creatively addressed the vexed question of literature's rel…
Woman and language in darkest Africa
The paper focuses on issues raised by Conrad's Heart of Darkness and on ways in which two recent novels, The Expedition to the Baobab Tree (Stockenstrdni) and The Whales in Lake Tanganyika (Hagerfors) employ the same model of the journey of exploration in order to break down phallo- and eurocentric concepts of language in an attempt to arrive at a new articulation of Africa. In Heart of Darkness Marlow crosses the limits of language in his confro…
Towards a redefinition of aesthetics
(1991). Towards a redefinition of aesthetics. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 105-116
Mutants of the picaresque
The Postmodernist problem of the relationship between “story” and “history” is approached via the picaresque. Certain characteristics of the Genre are assumed, notably that it concerns the autobiography of a traveller in the margin of conventional society, offering an ambiguous view of contemporary values. Cervantes transformed the picaro from rogue into outsider, internalising the notion of a journey by inserting it into language, and casting do…
Die postmodernistiese roman
Postmodernism is generally defined with reference to Modernism, but it may be rewarding to explore some of the roots of this movement in the 18th century novel, especially in terms of the obliteration of borders between text and extra‐text, the situation of a story in a context “replete with literature” (Butor), the exploration of the text as a process in which the reader becomes the accomplice of the narrator, and the ludic function of the narra…
Transgressions
Deconstruction has not taken root in the Anglo‐Saxon world and is generally treated with suspicion outside France because it threatens the comfortable certainty of language and meaning. Both the terms of reference and the development of deconstruction can be compared to the development in the natural sciences of quantum physics and the theory of relativity. Quantum physics has absorbed and transcended the Newtonian notion of a stable physical wor…
The Wall of the Plague
Andrea, a coloured expatriate from the Cape, comes to Provence to research the background to her lover Paul's film on the Great Plague. Mandla, a fellow South African and black activist, travels with her; his intense convictions make her question her own life and beliefs
Writing in a State of Siege
Looking on darkness
"Banned for many years in the author's native South Africa, Looking on Darkness tells the story of actor Joseph Malan as he awaits execution for the murder of his white lover. André Brink panders to no one's political, ideological or religious beliefs in a controversial novel which has achieved international significance and abundant critical acclaim."
Censorship and the Author
The territory on which the private and the social meet has ~lways,been a highly charged magnetic field, and even more so when, the pnva~e ~s, repres-ented by a creative individual. It cannot be other"llse. The ~nd1v~dual, needs the safety and security of the organised group; the art1st f1nds 1n his community the sustenance, the reassurance of a tradition within w~ich to express himself, and the public to which he must inevitably address h1mself i…
A Dry White Season
Writing in a State of Siege
The Wall of the Plague
Andrea, a coloured expatriate from the Cape, comes to Provence to research the background to her lover Paul's film on the Great Plague. Mandla, a fellow South African and black activist, travels with her; his intense convictions make her question her own life and beliefs
Censorship and the Author
The territory on which the private and the social meet has ~lways,been a highly charged magnetic field, and even more so when, the pnva~e ~s, repres-ented by a creative individual. It cannot be other"llse. The ~nd1v~dual, needs the safety and security of the organised group; the art1st f1nds 1n his community the sustenance, the reassurance of a tradition within w~ich to express himself, and the public to which he must inevitably address h1mself i…
Censorship and the Author
The territory on which the private and the social meet has ~lways,been a highly charged magnetic field, and even more so when, the pnva~e ~s, repres-ented by a creative individual. It cannot be other"llse. The ~nd1v~dual, needs the safety and security of the organised group; the art1st f1nds 1n his community the sustenance, the reassurance of a tradition within w~ich to express himself, and the public to which he must inevitably address h1mself i…
A Dry White Season
Looking on darkness
"Banned for many years in the author's native South Africa, Looking on Darkness tells the story of actor Joseph Malan as he awaits execution for the murder of his white lover. André Brink panders to no one's political, ideological or religious beliefs in a controversial novel which has achieved international significance and abundant critical acclaim."
Writing in a State of Siege
Transgressions
Deconstruction has not taken root in the Anglo‐Saxon world and is generally treated with suspicion outside France because it threatens the comfortable certainty of language and meaning. Both the terms of reference and the development of deconstruction can be compared to the development in the natural sciences of quantum physics and the theory of relativity. Quantum physics has absorbed and transcended the Newtonian notion of a stable physical wor…
The Wall of the Plague
Andrea, a coloured expatriate from the Cape, comes to Provence to research the background to her lover Paul's film on the Great Plague. Mandla, a fellow South African and black activist, travels with her; his intense convictions make her question her own life and beliefs
Die postmodernistiese roman
Postmodernism is generally defined with reference to Modernism, but it may be rewarding to explore some of the roots of this movement in the 18th century novel, especially in terms of the obliteration of borders between text and extra‐text, the situation of a story in a context “replete with literature” (Butor), the exploration of the text as a process in which the reader becomes the accomplice of the narrator, and the ludic function of the narra…
Mutants of the picaresque
The Postmodernist problem of the relationship between “story” and “history” is approached via the picaresque. Certain characteristics of the Genre are assumed, notably that it concerns the autobiography of a traveller in the margin of conventional society, offering an ambiguous view of contemporary values. Cervantes transformed the picaro from rogue into outsider, internalising the notion of a journey by inserting it into language, and casting do…
Towards a redefinition of aesthetics
(1991). Towards a redefinition of aesthetics. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 105-116
Woman and language in darkest Africa
The paper focuses on issues raised by Conrad's Heart of Darkness and on ways in which two recent novels, The Expedition to the Baobab Tree (Stockenstrdni) and The Whales in Lake Tanganyika (Hagerfors) employ the same model of the journey of exploration in order to break down phallo- and eurocentric concepts of language in an attempt to arrive at a new articulation of Africa. In Heart of Darkness Marlow crosses the limits of language in his confro…
Writing South Africa
During the final years of the apartheid era and the subsequent transition to democracy, South African literary writing caught the world's attention as never before. Writers responded to the changing political situation and its daily impact on the country's inhabitants with works that recorded or satirised state-enforced racism, explored the possibilities of resistance and rebuilding, and creatively addressed the vexed question of literature's rel…
Articulating the Inarticulate
Deux figures historiques de la littérature Africaines
Deux grandes figures de la littérature africaine nous ont quittés il y a maintenant un an, en début de l’année 2015, étrangement nés à quelques mois près, avec un parcours si ressemblant dans l’esprit et la création! Leur disparition est une perte pour l’Afrique car elles ne sont plus là pour commenter les soubresauts politiques et humains de notre continent, pour créer des textes toujours profonds. C’est à Schloss Leopoldskron à Salzburg que j’a…
Die kunste in 'n woelige wêreld
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices.
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