Sheena Patchay
Biographic Data
| ID | 9199801 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sheena Patchay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sheena |
| FAMILY NAME | Patchay |
| SIGNATURE | PATCHAY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nelson Mandela University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Not Just a Detective Novel: Trauma, Memory and Narrative Form in Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
This article argues that Peter Høeg's “detective novel”, Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, contains many elements relevant to postmodern and postcolonial experience. Smilla, the main character, who seeks answers to the death of a young Inuit boy in Denmark, encounters, in a profound way, the complexities of postmodern subjectivity, blended with postcolonial issues of identity formation and the power imbalances extant in any colonialist system. The …
Pickled histories, bottled stories: Recuperative narratives in the god of small things ∗
This article explores the various ways in which The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy 1997) interrogates and rewrites versions of histories. By blurring the boundaries between the personal and the political, the novel exposes official, documented History and suggests that such History rests on and empowers itself at the expense of subaltern discourses that have been (deliberately) marginalised. This article discusses the various ways in which hi…
“Re‐Telling histories” in The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
This article explores the various strategies that postmodern fiction uses to interrogate traditional historical representation. I argue that by blurring the boundaries between history and fiction, and the private and the public, postmodern fiction creates narrative space for histories of the Other to be explored and “reconfigured”. Hierdie artikel ondersoek die verskillende strategieë wat die postmoderne fiksie aanwend om tradisionele historiese …
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“Re‐Telling histories” in The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
This article explores the various strategies that postmodern fiction uses to interrogate traditional historical representation. I argue that by blurring the boundaries between history and fiction, and the private and the public, postmodern fiction creates narrative space for histories of the Other to be explored and “reconfigured”. Hierdie artikel ondersoek die verskillende strategieë wat die postmoderne fiksie aanwend om tradisionele historiese …
Pickled histories, bottled stories: Recuperative narratives in the god of small things ∗
This article explores the various ways in which The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy 1997) interrogates and rewrites versions of histories. By blurring the boundaries between the personal and the political, the novel exposes official, documented History and suggests that such History rests on and empowers itself at the expense of subaltern discourses that have been (deliberately) marginalised. This article discusses the various ways in which hi…
Not Just a Detective Novel: Trauma, Memory and Narrative Form in Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
This article argues that Peter Høeg's “detective novel”, Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, contains many elements relevant to postmodern and postcolonial experience. Smilla, the main character, who seeks answers to the death of a young Inuit boy in Denmark, encounters, in a profound way, the complexities of postmodern subjectivity, blended with postcolonial issues of identity formation and the power imbalances extant in any colonialist system. The …
Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Narrative Theory and Analysis (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works)