South African Postcolonial Science Fiction?

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Autor(a) principal: Pereira, Teresa
Data de Publicação: 2018
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/89350
Resumo: UID/ELT/04097/2013
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spelling South African Postcolonial Science Fiction?Miscegenation in Apocalypse Now Now, by Charlie Humanscience fictionpostcolonialismSouth AfricaSecond Anglo-Boer WarmiscegenationUID/ELT/04097/2013The novel Apocalypse Now Now, written by the South African author Charlie Human, tells the story of Baxter Zevcenko, a teenager whose girlfriend has gone missing. While trying to fi nd her, Baxter discovers that he is the great-greatgrandchild of an evil English magistrate with the ability to time travel (Kobus “Mirth” Basson) and of a destitute Afrikaner housemaid with supernatural abilities (Ester van Rensburg). Baxter additionally learns that, to travel through time, Mirth uses one of two exoskeletons, which are simultaneously the cages and the vehicles of two alien brothers, shaped as a mantis and an octopus. Clearly a science fi ctional novel, although it also employs the supernatural, Apocalypse Now Now could be characterized as a postcolonial novel, given its presentation of silenced voices. Nevertheless, the novel also focuses on some of the same racist concerns that characterized colonialism, specifi cally miscegenation. Therefore, this article will argue that, despite displaying a postcolonial dimension, Apocalypse Now Now additionally possesses what could be considered a neocolonial character – hence the question posed in the title of this article.Centro de Estudos Ingleses de Tradução e Anglo-portugueses (CETAPS)RUNPereira, Teresa2019-12-04T23:25:29Z20182018-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/article12application/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10362/89350eng2182-9446PURE: 15674522https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxvcGNpdGFwZWFhfGd4OjZiN2RjM2JiZTZiYmRhNzEinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-03-11T04:39:44Zoai:run.unl.pt:10362/89350Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T03:36:58.932010Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
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Miscegenation in Apocalypse Now Now, by Charlie Human
title South African Postcolonial Science Fiction?
spellingShingle South African Postcolonial Science Fiction?
Pereira, Teresa
science fiction
postcolonialism
South Africa
Second Anglo-Boer War
miscegenation
title_short South African Postcolonial Science Fiction?
title_full South African Postcolonial Science Fiction?
title_fullStr South African Postcolonial Science Fiction?
title_full_unstemmed South African Postcolonial Science Fiction?
title_sort South African Postcolonial Science Fiction?
author Pereira, Teresa
author_facet Pereira, Teresa
author_role author
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Pereira, Teresa
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv science fiction
postcolonialism
South Africa
Second Anglo-Boer War
miscegenation
topic science fiction
postcolonialism
South Africa
Second Anglo-Boer War
miscegenation
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