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عنوان	Deformity of Afrikaners' Identity in Andre Brink Selected Post-Apartheid Novels
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کلیدواژه‌ها	Deformity, disability studies, medical humanities, Andre Brink, post-aparthaid
چکیده	The present thesis meticulously examines André Brink’s post-apartheid novels, Devil’s Valley and Imaginings of Sand, based on the premises of disability studies which is a sub category of medical humanities. Medical Humanities as a multidisciplinary field of research focuses on the connection between medicine and humanities and social sciences. One of its subcategories, which is the researcher’s primary focus, is Disabilities Studies in which deformity and disability is viewed as a social construct rather an ordinary physical flaw. Disability studies and literature illuminate how disability as an identity constructive factor will be presented in literature and will define the identities of literary characters. The Devil’s Valley and Imaginings of Sand capture issues of democratic South Africa. A new-born South Africa where blacks rule and Afrikaners have become a marginalized minority. These two novels are replete with deformed and abnormal characters who are symbolically presented to capture the oppressed and marginalized identity of Afrikaners in the new democratic South Africa. Disability studies view disability not as an exclusive phenomenon but as an issue which roots back to other discriminations like feminism, racism and ethnic discrimination.
پژوهشگران	سیروس امیری (استاد مشاور)، زکریا بزدوده (استاد راهنما)، مهدیه گواه (دانشجو)