{"id":1012,"date":"2019-05-06T20:44:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T03:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2019-05-08T05:02:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T12:02:58","slug":"review-of-the-afrikaner-in-the-ottawa-review-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/2019\/05\/06\/review-of-the-afrikaner-in-the-ottawa-review-of-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of “The Afrikaner” in “The Ottawa Review of Books”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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“Some may think that writing a novel about a country [South Africa] not her own and so plagued by identity politics strays into the area of cultural appropriation. I would strongly disagree. Dagnino’s writing demonstrates the value of restoring to the storyteller a fundamental mandate, i.e. to chronicle the Zeitgeist wherever it may be, and especially in a country, whose history has touched all of us. In this, “The Afrikaner” is an exceptional novel by an exceptional writer.” Thanks to writer Ian Thomas Shaw (Con C\u00fa<\/a>), author of the newly published “The Quill of the Dove”, for his generous and thought-provoking review of “The Afrikaner” in The Ottawa Review of Books<\/em><\/a>. You can read the whole review here<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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“Some may think that writing a novel about a country [South Africa] not her own and so plagued by identity politics strays into the area of cultural appropriation. I would strongly disagree. Dagnino’s writing demonstrates the value of restoring to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27332,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions\/1027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}