Canine agents in two South African short stories
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10836680 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mathilda Slabbert (0000-0002-8990-5695, Stellenbosch University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2018-08-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Tydskrif vir letterkunde (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0041-476X • E-ISSN: 2309-9070 |
| Publisher | Academy of Science of South Africa (PUBLISHER • ZA) |
| DOI | 10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.55i3.5509 |
| OpenAlex | W2904028365 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 14 |
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
Colonels & cadres
Southern African Literatures
Dogs and dogma
The language of dogs
Archival movements
You must be thinking what a lesbian man teacher is doing in a nice place like Dipane Letsie School?’
Canis Africanis
Literature and Animal Studies
Bodies that matter
How the ‘cult of femininity’ and violent masculinities support endemic gender based violence in contemporary South Africa
What's the Difference? Bringing Particularity to Queer Studies of Transgender
South African Life Orientation Teachers
Bodies That Matter
Animal likenesses
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2003 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |