Film
★ 8.0
1994
In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid
A documentary overview and ideological critique of the South African film industry and cinema's historical relationship with apartheid.
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Writing
Born
1935-05-29 · 79 yrs
Died
2015-02-06
From
Vrede, Transvaal, South Africa
Known for
Writing
André Philippus Brink OIS (29 May 1935 – 6 February 2015) was a South African novelist, essayist and poet. He wrote in both Afrikaans and English and taught English at the University of Cape Town. In the 1960s Brink, Ingrid Jonker, Etienne Leroux and Breyten Breytenbach were key figures in the significant Afrikaans dissident intellectual and literary movement known as Die Sestigers ("The Sixty-ers"). These writers sought to expose the Afrikaner people to world literature, to use the Afrikaans language to speak out against the extreme Afrikaner nationalist and white supremacist National Party-controlled government, and also to introduce literary modernism, postmodernist literature, magic realism and other global trends into Afrikaans literature.…
