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Journal Article
Deon Meyer’s Dead Before Dying: Voices and representation of the new South Africa
2012
Overview
After Nelson Mandela took the position of president in 1994, new narratives like Deon Meyer's have become the very essence of the post-colonial changing process that the South Africa is still undergoing. In Dead Before Dying (1999), each character feels differently towards the new, postapartheid regime, and brings a new outlook to modern South African society. As the author portrays it in this novel, South Africa must be understood as an open-ended, creative dialogue of subcultures, of insiders and outsiders, of diverse factions. In this way, as readers, we witness the struggle of a new generation of South Africans in a transitional age in which white, black, and colored men and women try to reconstruct their lives and come to terms with the traumatic past and the abstract notion of who is the self and the Other. They are the voices of a new country and a new narrative.
