“Give the People What They Want”: Bodies on Display in Marlene Van Niekerk’s Triomf

• Main Author: Buxbaum, Lara
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: apartheid; bodies; empathy; scopic regime; voyeurism
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss18/15; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1315/viewcontent/_5BKKv00n18_2012_5D_203.9_ForumKritika_Buxbaum.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Marlene van Niekerk’s Triomf has attained both literary acclaim and notoriety since it was first published in Afrikaans in 1994 (English translation 1999). This darkly comic novel is set at the dawn of the democratic election and as such, the fictional context mirrors the historical moment in which...