‘Embodying Space’: The Search for a Nurturing Environment in Marlene van Niekerk’s Triomf, Agaat and Memorandum

Abstract

Marlene van Niekerk’s novels have been the subject of much lively critical discussion in the South African literary community. She has been praised for
– among other features – her inventive use of the Afrikaans language, disregard for taboos and the breaching of stylistic and literary boundaries.