dc.rights.license | CC-BY-NC-ND | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Bijl, Paul | |
dc.contributor.author | Draaisma, G.M. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-09-04T17:00:48Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-09-04T17:00:48Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/34009 | |
dc.description.abstract | My 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.sponsorship | Utrecht University | |
dc.format.extent | 49669 | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/zip | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.title | Imagining the Real: Apartheid in Beverley Naidoo’s Journey to Jo’Burg | |
dc.type.content | Bachelor Thesis | |
dc.rights.accessrights | Open Access | |
dc.subject.keywords | south africa, apartheid, beverley naidoo, postcolonialism, journey to jo'burg, intersectionality, gender, children's literature, postcolonial literature, literature | |
dc.subject.courseuu | Taal- en cultuurstudies | |