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dc.rights.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND
dc.contributor.advisorBijl, Paul
dc.contributor.authorDraaisma, G.M.
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-04T17:00:48Z
dc.date.available2019-09-04T17:00:48Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.urihttps://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/34009
dc.description.abstractMy thesis focuses on the novel Journey to Jo’Burg by Beverley Naidoo, a children’s book about a thirteen-year-old girl called Naledi and her brother who travel to Johannesburg by foot to find their mother. I will argue that Beverley Naidoo uses Journey to Jo’Burg to explain apartheid and make the topic accessible for a younger audience. First the socio-political context will be discussed and applied to the case of Journey to Jo’Burg, while mainly focusing on three elements of the apartheid regime: the role of the police, the “pass” laws and the Soweto student uprising of 1976. After placing the novel in its appropriate context, I will also consider its place in the larger canon of postcolonial (children’s) literature and South-African (children’s) literature in particular by briefly looking at other South-African children’s books written at roughly the same time and using postcolonial and intersectional theory to analyse in what way Journey to Jo’Burg can be considered a postcolonial novel.
dc.description.sponsorshipUtrecht University
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dc.language.isoen
dc.titleImagining the Real: Apartheid in Beverley Naidoo’s Journey to Jo’Burg
dc.type.contentBachelor Thesis
dc.rights.accessrightsOpen Access
dc.subject.keywordssouth africa, apartheid, beverley naidoo, postcolonialism, journey to jo'burg, intersectionality, gender, children's literature, postcolonial literature, literature
dc.subject.courseuuTaal- en cultuurstudies


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