| Summary: | This paper uses postmodernism to analyse Pamela Jooste’s novel, Frieda and Min, to show how she engages in the move towards deconstructing the apartheid history and valorizes the black South African culture. This white South African female writer re-visits the apartheid history in her narrative fiction. The intention here is, probably, to bring into focus the hidden aspects of the South African history in order to authenticate the view that the struggle against apartheid was not only the affair of the black race; white South Africans also participated vigorously in the fight against the apartheid policy. In addition, the author demystifies the white “grand narrative” of culture that nothing good can come from black South Africans. By so doing, Jooste interrogates the writing of history and hinges on the postmodernist view that truth – even historical truth - only can only be relative, not absolute.
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