Child and youth protagonists in Habila’s Measuring Time and Dangor’s Bitter Fruit

Helon Habila’s Measuring Time and Achmat Dangor’s Bitter Fruit deploy child and youth protagonists to offer nuanced perspectives on contemporary nationhood in Nigeria and South Africa respectively, displacing the adult, and mostly male viewpoints that have dominated novelistic portrayals of postcolo...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Aghogho Akpome
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Association 2018-08-01
Series:Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
Subjects:
Online Access:https://journals.assaf.org.za/index.php/tvl/article/view/1783