Marginalia on `grensliteratuur': Or how/why is terror culturally constructed in Northern Namibia?

Discusses a genre of South African writing known as `Border literature' or `grensliterartuur' in Northern Namibia. Presentation of fieldwork experience in poetry and novels; Promotion of cultural elaboration; Violence as an instrument of control and privilege of social rank; Dimensions of terroristic violence in literature; Socialization and subordination in Namibian race.