Canine agents in two South African short stories

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ID10836680
AutoresMathilda Slabbert (0000-0002-8990-5695, Stellenbosch University, autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Volume55
Fascículo3
Data de publicação2018-08-27
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoTydskrif vir letterkunde (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0041-476X • E-ISSN: 2309-9070
EditoraAcademy of Science of South Africa (PUBLISHER • ZA)
DOI10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.55i3.5509
OpenAlexW2904028365
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências 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