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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. | + | '''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. |
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| + | Examples include: | ||
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| + | * ''[[Hitlers Slaap Ook]]'' by [[Pirow Bekker]] (1979) | ||
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| + | * ''[[National Madness]]'' by [[James Whyle]] (1981) | ||
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| + | * ''[[Rehearsal in Progress]]'' by [[Brendan Butler]] (1983) | ||
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| + | * ''[[Somewhere on the Border]]'' by [[Anthony Akerman]] (1983) | ||
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| + | * ''[[Môre is ‘n Lang Dag]]'' by [[Deon Opperman]] (1984). | ||
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| + | * ''[[Ons Sal Offer Wat Jy Vra]]'' by [[Allan Munro]] (1990) | ||
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| + | * ''[[The Dead Wait]]'' by [[Paul Herzberg]] (1997) | ||
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| + | * ''[[Grensgeval]]'' by [[Gaerin Hauptfleisch]] (2000) | ||
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=Sources= | =Sources= | ||
Revision as of 16:48, 21 May 2025
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)
- The Dead Wait by Paul Herzberg (1997)
- Grensgeval by Gaerin Hauptfleisch (2000)
Sources
[Van Heerden (2008)][1]. p 105.
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