The Smell of Apples

The Smell of Apples Sources and ClassicNote Author

  • Behr, Mark. The Smell of Apples. New York: Picador, 1995.
  • Bystrom, Kerry. 2012. “Reading the South Atlantic: Chile, South Africa, the Cold War, and Mark Behr’s The Smell of Apples.” African Studies 71 (1): 1–18.

  • Stobie, Cheryl. "Fissures in Apartheid's "Eden": Representations of Bisexuality in "The Smell of Apples" by Mark Behr." Research in African Literatures 39, no. 1 (2008): 70-86.

  • Rajiva, Jay. "The Seduction of Narration in Mark Behr's The Smell of Apples." Research in African Literatures 44, no. 4 (2013): 82-98.

  • Barnard, Rita. "The Smell of Apples, Moby-Dick, and Apartheid Ideology." Modern Fiction Studies 46, no. 1 (2000): 207-26.

  • Banco, Lindsey Michael. "The Homoerotics of Nationalism: White Male-on-Male Rape & the ‘Coloured’ Subject in Mark Behr’s The Smell of Apples." In Men in African Film and Fiction, edited by Ouzgane Lahoucine, 28-41. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK; Rochester, NY, USA: Boydell and Brewer, 2011.

  • Heyns, Michiel. "The Whole Country's Truth: Confession and Narrative in Recent South African Writing." Modern Fiction Studies 46, no. 1 (2000): 42-66.

  • Gallagher, Susan Vanzanten. "The Backward Glance: History and the Novel in Post-Apartheid South Africa." Studies in the Novel 29, no. 3 (1997): 376-95.

  • Lima, Álvaro Luís. "Screw the Nation!: Queer Nationalism and Representations of Power in Contemporary South African Art." African Arts 45, no. 4 (2012): 46-57. Accessed January 6, 2020.

  • Mervyn McMurtry. "Perverted Rites of Passage." Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, no. 37 (1998): 101-03.

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  • van der Vlies, Andrew. "An Interview with Mark Behr ." 12/29/19. <https://www.academia.edu/1532567/An_Interview_with_Mark_Behr>.
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  • "The Rise and Fall of the Orange Free State and Transvaal in Southern Africa." Library of Congress. 12/30/19. <https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2018/06/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-orange-free-state-and-transvaal-in-southern-africa/>.
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