Further, I will consider questions revolving around language, reliability and everyday emotions, focusing on the uncomfortable juxtaposition of global, national and local in both countries as they struggle to enter the modern world order. This, I suggest, reveals how postcolonial modernity in Brazil and South Africa relies on a continuing and normalised psycho-politics of otherness. In particular, I argue that the treatment of insanity denies the patient’s individuality and replicates the identity politics of the colonial situation. This article will explore the common theme of madness in these novels to highlight liminality. Sello Duiker’s The Quiet Violence of Dreams and Rodrigo de Souza Leão’s All Dogs Are Blue are just two examples. This has recently been explored in each country’s respective literatures: K.
Consequently, a liminal situation has been created, where past and present discourses compete for space. Yet neither transition has been as smooth as expected. Two somewhat similar forms of socio-political oppression and manipulation – military rule in Brazil (ended 1985) and South African apartheid (ended 1994) – have been replaced by democratic regimes and exceedingly optimistic hopes for the future. Most obviously, both have experienced a shared political history of democratic transition. The recent histories of South Africa and Brazil share many commonalities.
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