Language, education, and transformation in Bianca Marais’s Hum If You Don’t Know the Words

In this article, I analyse Bianca Marais’s debut novel Hum If You Don’t Know the Words (2017). I consider first its relation to the historical events of the Soweto Uprising of 1976, and then examine its methods of composition. The issue precipitating the Soweto Uprising, when hundreds of black scho...

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Main Author: Gail Fincham
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Association 2022-09-01
Series:Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
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Online Access:https://letterkunde.africa/article/view/10942