Transgressions/transitions in three post‐1994 South African texts: Pamela Jooste's dance with a poor man's daughter, Bridget Pitt's unbroken wing and Achmat Dangor's Kafka's Curse

Abstract

Summary The representations and the writing self of three South African writers, two white women and one male of Malay descent, are explored against apartheid identity paradigms and the postmodernist revisioning of the Enlightenment notion of the self as complex and constantly shifting. The focus in the article is on the reformulations of the self by the crossing of actual and conceptual boundaries to show dominating patterns as well as failures, silences, displacements and transformations.