Van Wyngaard, John Robert.Dix, Brett Gavin.2010-09-072010-09-0720072007http://hdl.handle.net/10413/977Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2007.This dissertation attempts to compare and contrast the functions of cultural memory and myth in both Heaney and Krog's work. By doing so, I look at what it means for both writers to work within a culture or tradition, and how they both mediate their religious or racial identity within a fractured and divided society.enMemory in literature.Myth in literature.South Africa--In literature.Ireland--In literature.Theses--English.Thesis