Dark Humor: Satire, the Baroque, and the Carnivalesque in Patricia Schonstein’s Banquet at Brabazan and Ingrid Winterbach’s The Elusive Moth

• Main Author: Acott, Heather
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Afrikaans literature; Cape Town; magical realism; masquerade; painting in literature
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss18/11; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1311/viewcontent/_5BKKv00n18_2012_5D_203.5_ForumKritika_Acott.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Both Patricia Schonstein’s Banquet at Brabazan and Ingrid Winterbach’s The Elusive Moth contain an element of baroque fantasy, and in Schonstein’s case the makings of a contemporary satire. They also exhibit the tension between the comic and the tragic, the city and the platteland, between flights o...