Border plays
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Border plays are a genre of dramas, a sub-section of the so-called “border literature” [“grensliteratuur”], written mostly in Afrikaans, but also in English, that deal with the war on South Africa’s borders in the 1970s and 1980s.
Examples include:
- Hitlers Slaap Ook by Pirow Bekker (1979)
- National Madness by James Whyle (1981)
- Rehearsal in Progress by Brendan Butler (1983)
- Somewhere on the Border by Anthony Akerman (1983)
- Môre is ‘n Lang Dag by Deon Opperman (1984)
- Ons Sal Offer Wat Jy Vra by Allan Munro (1990)
- White Men with Weapons by Greig Coetzee (1995)
- The Dead Wait by Paul Herzberg (1997)
Sources
[Van Heerden (2008)][1]. p 105.
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