Diskursiewe patrone in Brandwaterkom van Alexander Strachan

dc.contributor.author	Van Coller, H.P.
dc.date.accessioned	2017-05-15T08:59:24Z
dc.date.available	2017-05-15T08:59:24Z
dc.date.issued	2016
dc.identifier.citation	Van Coller, H.P. 2016. Diskursiewe patrone in Brandwaterkom van Alexander Strachan. Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 36(1):222-242. [http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/tvl.v53i1.16]
dc.identifier.issn	0041-476X
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/tvl.v53i1.16
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10394/23651
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dc.description.abstract	The recently published and prizewinning novel Brandwaterkom is vintage Strachan with an intricate structure, imbedded stories and a whole network of allusions. Typical of postmodernist writing, the relationship between fact and fiction, historiography and the novel is problematized. The primary narrator is a Hermes-figure who constantly reflects upon the narrative in metafictional fashion, questioning and even belittling his own omniscience and omnipotence as narrator. The main story centres on Fanie Vilonel, a traitor during the Boer War, and the motif of treachery is central in the story, discourse and narration.
dc.language.iso	other
dc.publisher	Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Association
dc.subject	Afrikaans novels
dc.subject	Anglo-Boer War
dc.subject	postmodernist writing
dc.subject	treachery
dc.title	Diskursiewe patrone in Brandwaterkom van Alexander Strachan
dc.type	Article
dc.contributor.researchID	11718463 - Van Coller, Hendrik Petrus