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A semiotic analysis of selected South African female artists' work from a feminist, post-colonial perspective.Marais, Sophia Aletta January 2015 (has links)
M. Tech. Fine Arts / The research aim of the study was to investigate the way that Nandipha Mntambo and Mary Sibande have used the female form in their art to undermine harmful representations/myths of women from a third wave feminist and a post-colonial perspective, using semiotics. Semiotics can be used to establish how meaning is made and reality represented in signs. The impact of signs, codes, myths and ideology of society on the embodiment of the female was investigated using semiotics. Third wave feminism theories can be applied in the analysis of the artworks such as Butler's gender construction and Crash and Pruzinsky's viewpoint on the harmful and stereotypical assumptions about women in visual culture. The post-feminist viewpoints as discussed by Jones about women being portrayed either as housewives and mothers or as sex and consumer objects in visual media were highlighted. Post-colonial perspectives such as the dominant ideology of the colonial period fostering the creation of interrelated, socially constructed, controlling images of black womanhood were discussed. Racial and gender discrimination affected most black women in colonial times. Through the semiotic analysis of Nandipha Mntambo and Mary Sibande, as well as the author's own artwork, an examination of the ideology of patriarchy as well as the ideology of colonialism could be identified. The artists express pride in their heritage and traditions. The ideology of consumerism and the myth of beauty are subverted by the artists in their artwork. The myth of the maid can be observed in the artworks of Sibande and the author. All the artists subvert stereotypical representations of women in society.
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The application of sense-making theory to advertising : an exploratory case studyWatson, James Alexander 12 1900 (has links)
Thesis (MPhil)--University of Stellenbosch, 2003. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The purpose of the study was to investigate the controlled transfer of meaning that could be
facilitated by the application of knowledge of sense-making theory. An object of
communication, an advertisement, was consciously constructed on the basis of sense-making
principles. An application of knowledge of sense making was then employed to assess the
reception of the advertisement by a selected sample of respondents.
The decision to select advertising as the choice of medium for the study stemmed from the
increasing levels of criticism directed at this form of communication as a result of its frequent
failure to deliver intended benefits for its sponsors. The intended benefits relate to the transfer
of meaning that would prompt recipients of advertising messages to take an action that would
be of value to the advertiser.
More specific criticisms have centred on the failure of a growing number of advertising
messages to deliver meaningful benefits as a result of their lack of relevance for the intended
recipients of these communications. A call for a shift in mind-set away from traditional linear
models currently employed to facilitate the design of advertising messages has prompted a
growing recognition of the need to employ a more empathetic approach that would facilitate a
positive interaction between an advertiser and a target audience.
The emergence of what has been termed experiential marketing communications has
advocated a view that advertising communications can promote stronger allegiances between
organisations and their customers by the inclusion of meaningful sensory associations for
recipients. This view, together with the insights revealed by those working in the field of
sense making, suggested that the incorporation of sense-making theory could well
accommodate the paradigm shift that has been called for in the design of advertising
communications. The views and insights outlined above prompted the development of an advertisement that
sought to incorporate sense-making theory into its construction. The requirement to allow for
the transfer of intended meaning in the advertisement was facilitated by incorporating frames
and cues, the design of which sought to assist in the resolution of equivocality and enable
respondents to bridge cognitive gaps.
The investigation took the form of an exploratory case study. The advertisement, constructed
on the basis of sense-making theory, represented the control element of the study. In-depth
interviews were conducted amongst grade 12 learners selected on the basis of their matching
the target audience for which the advertisement had been designed. The semi-structured
nature of the interviews followed a format that allowed for a comparison to be made between
the intended input of meaning and the decoding of responses relating to the advertisement.
Results indicated that there was a transfer of intended meanings incorporated into the
advertisement as indicated in the decoded responses of respondents. These positive findings
tend to indicate that a conscious application of sense-making theory to the construction of
advertising messages could enhance their effectiveness. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die doel van hierdie studie was om die beheerde oordrag van betekenis, gefassiliteer deur die
bepassing van kennis van die “sense-making” teorie, te ondersoek. ‘n Voorwerp van
kommunikasie, ‘n advertensie, is doelbewus geskep op grond van die beginsels van die
“sense-making” teorie. ‘n Toepassing van kennis van dié teorie is aangewend om die impak
van die advertensie op ‘n steekproef van reagente te assesseer.
Weens die voortdurende mislukking van die advertensie medium om beplande voordele aan
die borge te lewer, styg vlakke van kritiek gerig tot hierdie medium. Juis hierdie statistiek het
die besluit om die advertensie medium as voorwerp van studie te gebruik, laat ontwikkel. Die
beplande voordele vir die borge hou direk verband met die oordrag van die betekenis wat die
ontvanger van die advertensie boodskap sal aanpar om op te tree, en sodoende tot voordeel
van die adverteerder sal strek.
Kritiek is spesifiek gerig op die mislukking van al hoe meer advertensies wat nie
betekenisvolle voordele lewer nie as gevolg van die irrelevansie van die vorm van
kommunikasie vir die ontvanger. Die herkenning van die groeiende behoefde het ‘n beroep
gemaak om ‘n paradigma skuif te maak, weg van die huidige, tradisionele, linêre model wat
die ontwerp van advertensie boodskappe fassiliteer. Hierdie behoefte is om ‘n meer
empatiese benadering in te stel, wat ‘n positiewe interaksie tussen die adverteerder en teiken
gehoor sal fassiliteer.
Die ontstaan van die sogenaamde “experietial marketing communications” het voorgestel dat
die advertensie medium sterker getrouheid tussen organisasies en hul klante kan adverteer.
Hierdie oogpunt, saam met die insig van dié gene wat in die veld van “sense making” werk,
stel voor dat die inkorporasie van die “sense-making” teorie, wel die paradigma skuif, beroep
op die ontwerp van die advertensie, kan akkommodeer. Dit het die ontwikkeling van ‘n advertensie met die “sense-making” teorie in sy konstruksie
geïnkorporeer, aangewaldeer. Die vereiste om die oordrag van die beplande betekenis van ‘n
advertensie te bewerkstellig, is gefassiliteer deur sketse en aanwysings te inkorporeer.
Hierdie sketse en aanwysings is ontwerp om die voorkoming/oplossing van dubbelsinnigheid
te ondersteun en om reagente te help om kognitiewe gapings te oorbrug.
Die ondersoek het die vorm van ‘n ontdekkings gevallestudie aangeneem. Die advertensie,
gebaseer op die “sense-making” teorie, het die kontrole element van die studie
verteenwoordig. Onderhoude is indiepte gevoer met graad 12 leerders wat gekeur is op grond
van die feit dat hulle in die teikengroep van die ontwerpte advertensie val. Die semigestruktureerde
aard van die onderhoude het toegelaat dat die voorafbeplande blootstelling
aan die betekenis vergelyk word met die dekodering van die terugvoering in verband met die
advertensie.
Resultate het gewys dat daar wel ‘n oordrag van die beplande, geïnkorporeerde betekenis in
die advertensie plaas gevind het, wat bewys is in as ‘n dekodeerde reaksie van die reagent.
Hierdie positiewe bevindings neig om te bewys dat ‘n bewuste aanwending van die “sensemaking”
teorie tot die konstruksie van die advertensie wese die effektiewiteit van boodskappe
verbeter.
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The development of film criticism in Cape Town's daily press 1928-1930 : an explorative investigation into the Cape Times and Die BurgerEckardt, Michael 04 1900 (has links)
Thesis (MPhil)--University of Stellenbosch, 2004. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis examines the development of film criticism in Cape
Town's daily press from 1928 to 1930, using film reviews from the
newspapers the Cape Times and Die Burger as sources. The study
starts with an overview of studies concerning early South African
film history, and characterizes it as a rather underdeveloped
field of study. The character of film criticism in the period
under discussion is explained by using a description of the
general function of film criticism as a basis and taking film
criticism in the Weimar Republic of Germany as an example for the
following comparison. The basis for the comparative analysis is a
list of films screened in three selected cinemas in Cape Town from
1928 to 1930. Part of the analysis is an empirical study to
examine the quantitative development of film reviews in the period
under discussion. Length ranges with which to characterize film
reviews are defined and the preferred average lengths of reviews
for both newspapers as well as for films screened at the
particular cinemas are listed. The qualitative part of the study
is a content analysis of two selected groups of films: 1. films
which received average-size reviews and 2. films which ran longer
than average and received above-average size reviews. The survey
reveals that the Cape Times followed a "quantitative strategy",
reviewing all films screened and that Die Burger had a
"qualitative
The reviews
strategy",
in both
reviewing specially selected films only.
newspapers can be characterized as
functionalistic. The Cape Times displayed their business
orientation by publishing mostly advertisement-like reviews; Die
Burger's political orientation was reflected in comments about the
language in sound films, including film and cinema into the
language struggle. The study demonstrates that newspapers are a
valuable source for research concerning early South African film
history. The existing standard reference, Thelma Gutsche's The
History and Social ,Significance of Motion Pictures in South Africa
1895-1940 can be fruitfully complemented by using Afrikaans
newspapers, as well as the writings of the Afrikaner film critic
Hans Rompel. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis ondersoek die ontwikkeling van rolprentresensies in
die pers van Kaapstad in die jare 1928 tot 1930 en gebruik
daarvoor resensies van die nuuskoerante Cape Times en Die Burger.
Die ondersoek begin met 'n oorsig van die vroeë Suid Afrikaanse
rolprentgeskiedenis. Die karakter van rolprentresensie in die
gegewe periode word verduidelik deur 'n beskrywing van die
algemene funksie om rolprentresensie as "n basis te gebruik en
rolprentresensies in die Duitse Weimar Republiek as 'n voorbeeld
vir die opvolgende vergelyking te neem. Die basis vir die
vergelykende analise is 'n lys van rolprente wat in drie
geselekteerde bioskope in Kaapstad gedurende die periode van 1928
tot 1930 gewys is. 'n Gedeelte van die analise behels 'n empiriese
studie om die kwantitatiewe ontwikkeling van rolprentrensensies
gedurende die gegewe periode te ondersoek. Lengte reekse word
gedefinieer om die resensies te karakteriseer, en die verkose
gemiddelde lengtes van resensies word gelys vir beide nuuskoerante
as ook vir films wat by die geselekeerde cinemas gewys is. Die
kwalitatiewe gedeelte van die studie is 'n inhoudanalise van twee
geselekteerde groepe van rolprente: 1. rolprente wat resensies van
gemiddelde lengte ontvang het en 2. rolprente wat langer as
gemiddeld gewys is en resensies van bo-gemiddelde lengte ontvang
het. Die ondersoek wys uit dat die Cape Times 'n "kwantitatiewe
strategie" gevolg het deur alle rolprente te resenseer, terwyl die
Die Burger 'n "kwalitatiewe strategie" gevolg het deur net
gekeurde rolprente te resenseer. Die resensies in albei
nuuskoerante kan as funkionalisties beskryf word. Die Cape Times
lig sy besigheidsgeorienteerde houding uit, deur grotendeels
advertensie-gelyke resensies te skryf; Die Burger demonstreer sy
politiese orientering deur kommentaar oor die taalgebruik in
klankrolprente te lewer en sluit so rolprente en bioskope in die
taalstryd in. Die studie demonstreer dat koerante 'n waardevolle
inligtingsbron vir navorsing oor die vroeë Suid Afrikaanse
rolprentgeskiedenis lewer. Die bestaande standaardverwysing,
Thelma Gutsche se The History and Social Significance of Motion
Pictures in South Africa 1895-1940 kan suksesvol gekomplimenteer
word deur gebruik te maak van Afrikaanse koerante, as ook van die
tekste van die Afrikaanse filmkritikus, Hans Rompel.
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Corporeal tales : an investigation into narrative form in contemporary South African dance and choreographyParker, Alan Charles January 2008 (has links)
In the years following the fall of Apartheid in South Africa, dance and choreography have undergone considerable transformation. This investigation stems from one observation relative to this change that has been articulated by two of South Africa's most respected dance critics, Adrienne Sichel and Matthew Krouse. Both critics have noted a growing concern for narrative in South African contemporary choreography, coupled with an apparent propensity for narratives of a distinctly personal and 'autobiographical' nature. In Part One: 'Just after the beginning', the proposed preoccupation with narrative in South African contemporary choreography is discussed in light of the relationship between narrative and the notion of personal identity. The use of the performed narrative as a medium to explore questions about identity is offered as one explanation underpinning this increased proclivity, where the interrogation of the form of the danced narrative provides a site for exploration of personal identity. Part Two: 'Somewhere in the middle' interrogates the notion of form through an in-depth discussion of the experimentation with form within theatrical and antitheatrical dance traditions over the last fifty years. Specific works by three selected South African choreographers (Ginslov, Maqoma and Sabbagha) are discussed in terms of their general approach to narrative form. This provides an illustration of some of the approaches to narrative form emergent in contemporary South African choreographic practices. Part Three: 'Nearing the end' offers Acty Tang's Chaste (2007) as a case study to illustrate the practical application of the dance narrative as a means to interrogate questions relating to personal identity. A detailed analysis of Tang's particular approach to forming the narrative of Chaste is conducted, exposing the intertextual, multimedia and multidisciplinary approach to creating the danced narrative.
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Humour's critical capacity in the context of South African dance, with two related analysesElliott, Nicola January 2010 (has links)
This thesis spans two fields – South African dance and the philosophy of humour – and attempts to link them through an understanding of their formal mechanisms. I attempt to establish two main ideas: that there is a need for a critical praxis in South African dance, and that humour in dance can be part of this process. In Chapter One, I discuss elements of the South African dance and theatre industries pre- and post-1994 towards arguing my first point (that South African dance would benefit from a critical praxis). I probe some of the challenges facing artists and describe how choreographers are dealing thematically and stylistically (but not formally) with the concept of the ‘New’ South Africa. Through an investigation of concerns voiced by critics regarding choreographic form in the country, I argue that South African dance would benefit from critical formal investigations in dance-making. Finally, I discuss traditional views of humour in South African dance/theatre and in philosophy, which suggest that humour is predominantly seen as frivolous and unworthy of serious attention. Chapter Two, I offer a defence for humour’s more profound critical aspects, suggesting that humour can in fact be seen as critical ‘thinking in action’. A discussion of theories about humour reveals that the basis for humour is the incongruous. A subsequent discussion of form in theatre and dance shows how the incongruous might work within dance form to create meta-dance. In this way, I attempt to link the two fields of humour and South African dance and to make the connection between the critical capacities of meta-dance and those of humour. I suggest, in other words, that humour in dance can create a critical awareness, of the likes advocated in Chapter One. In Chapter Three, I discuss aspects of two works: my own This part should be uncomfortable (2008) and Nelisiwe Xaba’s Plasticization (2004). The two analyses differ from each other as does the humour in both works. Despite the differences, I argue that humour in both works is operating on a critical level that includes a meta-level of signification.
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Humour's critical capacity in the context of South African dance, with two related analysesElliott, Nicola January 2010 (has links)
This thesis spans two fields - South African dance and the philosophy of humour - and attempts to link them through an understanding of their formal mechanisms. I attempt to establish two main ideas: that there is a need for a critical praxis in South African dance, and that humour in dance can be part of this process. In Chapter One, I discuss elements of the South African dance and theatre industries pre- and post-1994 towards arguing my first point (that South African dance would benefit from a critical praxis). I probe some of the challenges facing artists and describe howchoreographers are dealing thematically and stylistically (but not formally) with the concept of the 'New' South Africa. Through an investigation of concerns voiced by critics regarding choreographic form in the country, I argue that South African dance would benefit from critical formal investigations in dance-making. Finally, I discuss traditional views of humour in South African dance/theatre and in philosophy, which suggest that humour is predominantly seen as frivolous and unworthy of serious attenfion. In Chapter Two, I offer a defence for humour's more profound critical aspects, suggesting that humour can in fact be seen as critical 'thinking in action'. A discussion of theories about humour reveals that the basis for humour is the incongruous. A subsequent discussion of form in theatre and dance shows how the incongruous might work within dance form to create meta-dance. In this way, I attempt to link the two fields of humour and South African dance and to make the connection between the critical capaci~ies of meta-dance and those of humour. I suggest, in other words, that humour in dance can create a critical awareness, of the likes advocated in Chapter One. In Chapter Three, I discuss aspects of two works: my own This part should be uncomfortable (2008) and Nelisiwe Xaba's Plasticization (2004). The two analyses differ from each other as does the humour in both works. Despite the differences, I argue that humour in both works is operating on a critical level that includes a meta-level of signification.
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The Jubilee in Leviticus 25 : a theological ethical interpretation from a South African perspectiveMeyer, Esias Engelbertus 04 1900 (has links)
Thesis (D. Th.)--University of Stellenbosch, 2004. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Jubilee year in Leviticus 25 has received a fair amount of attention towards the end of
the previous millennium with the movements such as the Jubilee 2000, which campaigned
for the remissions of debt in the so-called Third World. The text thus has a very liberating
image and this is where the problem lies, because a critical reading of the text creates a far
more oppressive picture. The question then becomes how the biblical critic is to respond,
especially when she/he is sympathetic towards the objectives of the Jubilee 2000
movement.
In this study it is argued that there is only one way to respond and that is to play the critical
role that biblical scholars have always attempted to play. This means that it would be
ethically irresponsible for biblical critics to shy away from exposing the oppressive sides of a
biblical text. An ideological-critical approach is then proposed which attempts to construct
the world-view or ideology that could be glimpsed from the text. This kind of reading is
suspicious of what the biblical text claims and it further attempts to identify political and
other interests in the text. An ideological critical reading also takes stock of the “ideological
holdings” of the interpreter. In this regard the author argues that the history of Apartheid and
specifically the way in which the Bible was used to legitimate Apartheid is one of his main
ideological holdings that predisposes him to read in a certain manner.
Leviticus 25 is then subjected to very close synchronic scrutiny. Firstly the most salient
grammatical features of the text are identified and secondly it is asked how these features
were used in order to persuade. This second reading is thus a kind of rhetorical reading that
specifically focuses on ways in which the relationship between the addressees, the land,
YHWH and other groups in the text is portrayed. This enables the author to describe the
world-view or ideology of the authors and addressees of Leviticus 25. These same interests
are also identified in some of the chapters surrounding chapter 25. Eventually this leads to
dating the composition of this text in the Second Temple Period and it specifically identifies
the interests of this text with those of the returning Elite.
This interpretation presents the text as rather oppressive and instead of preventing poverty
it actually reinstated poverty, which means that some dark sides of the text are exposed.
The study is then concluded with some theological-ethical observations where it is
reiterated that one of the tasks of the biblical critic is to give some voice to people that were
voiceless in the biblical text. The study also shows that despite these dark sides to the text,
there still is liberating potential in the Jubilee. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die Jubeljaar in Levitikus 25 het veral aandag getrek aan die einde van die vorige
millennium toe bewegings soos die “Jubilee 2000” beweging hulle beywer het vir die
afskrywe van skuld in die sogenaamde Derde Wêreld. Die teks het dus ‘n “bevrydende
beeld” en dit is juis waar die probleem lê, want ‘n kritiese lees van die teks skep ‘n baie
meer verdrukkende prentjie. Die vraag is nou hoe die bybelwetenskaplike moet reageer,
veral indien sy/hy die doelwitte van die Jubilee 2000 beweging ondersteun.
Daar word dan in hierdie studie geargumenteer dat daar eintlik maar net een manier is
waarop ‘n mens sou kon reageer en dit is deur die kritiese rol te speel wat
bybelwetenskaplikes nog altyd nagestreef het. Dit beteken dat dit eties onverantwoordelik
sou wees om weg te skram van die verdrukkende kante van ‘n bybelse teks. ‘n Ideologiekritiese
benadering word dan voorgestel wat poog om die wêreldbeeld of ideologie te
konstrueer wat ‘n mens in die teks sou kon bespeur. Hierdie soort lesing staan redelik
agterdogtig teenoor wat die teks beweer en poog dan om politieke en ander belange in die
teks te identifiseer. So ‘n ideologie-kritiese lees poog ook om die “ideologiese erfenis” van
die interpreteerder te verwoord. In hierdie opsig argumenteer die outeur dat die geskiedenis
van Apartheid en veral die manier waarop die Bybel gebruik is om dit te legitimeer een van
sy ideologiese erfenisse is wat aanleiding daartoe gee dat hy op ‘n bepaalde manier lees.
Levitikus 25 word dan onder ‘n deeglike sinkroniese loep geneem. Eerstens word die mees
uitstaande grammatikale kenmerke van die teks geïdentifiseer en tweedens word gevra hoe
hierdie kenmerke gebruik sou kon word om te oortuig. Hierdie tweede lesing is ‘n soort
retoriese lesing wat spesifiek fokus op hoe die verhouding tussen die aangespreektes, die
land, YHWH en ander groepe in die teks uitgebeeld word. Dit stel die outeur in staat om die
wêreldbeeld of ideologie van die skrywers en aangespreektes te omskryf. Hierdie selfde
belange word dan ook in die omringende teks van hoofstuk 25 geïdentifiseer. Uiteindelik
word die komposisie van hierdie teks in die Tweede Tempeltydperk gedateer en word die
belange in die teks verbind met die belange van die terugkerende hoërklas.
Hierdie interpretasie stel dan die teks as redelik verdrukkend voor en in plaas daarvan dat
dit armoed teengewerk het, het dit armoede teweeggebring wat natuurlik beteken dat
donker kante van die teks blootgelê word. Die studie sluit dan af met ‘n paar teologieseetiese
waarnemings waar dit weereens beklemtoon word dat een van die take van die
bybelwetenskaplike juis is om ‘n stem te gee aan die mense wat in die antieke teks
stemloos was. Die studie wys ook uit dat daar ten spyte van hierdie moontlike donker kante
van die teks daar tog nog bevrydende potensiaal in die Jubeljaar is.
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A genealogical history of English studies in South Africa : with special reference to the responses by South African academic literary criticism to the emergence of an indigenous South African literature.Doherty, Christopher Malcolm William. January 1989 (has links)
This thesis examines certain social and institutional forces that have shaped the outlooks and procedures of English departments in South Africa. The approach taken is based on the researches of Michel Foucault, notably his genealogical approach to history, and his view of the university as an institution within a broader "disciplinary society" that controls discourse in the interests of existi~g power relations in that society and not out of a concern with disinterested truth. It is argued that English departments are contingent, historically constituted products whose genealogies continue to have serious consequences for struggles around contemporary issues, notably the reception of indigenous South African writing. The first chapter examines the beginnings of the institutionalised study of English literature in England. This inquiry reveals that English literature became the subject of academic.study as a result of conflict between opposing interests in the university and the social world of nineteenth century J England. It also points to the existence of a "discursive space", an inherently unstable area, which the emergent subject of English was forced to occupy as a result of the ezisting arrang~ment of disciplines in the university. Chapter Two analyses the decisive contribution made by I. A Richards a9d the importance of practical criticism for the humanist enterprise of English studies. F. R. Leavis's adaptation of practical criticism is also examined with a view to understanding its consequences for English studies in South Africa. Chapter Three examines the early history of English studies in South Africa and assesses the impact of metropolitan developments on the manner in which the discipline was constituted in this country. Chapter Four focuses on the effect of metropolitan developments on the conceptualisation and study of a South African literature. Chapter Five examines descriptions of sub traditions of South African literature that were offered during the 1960s and '70s and concludes by offering an analysis of the radical critique of English studies that appeared at the end of the decade. The thesis concludes that the radical critique was largely unsuccessful for a number of reasons, one being the lack of a genealogical analysis. It is suggested that the manner in which English studies was historically constituted, and its mode of institutional existence, pose a perhaps intrinsic obstacle to the study and teaching of indigenous writing. / Thesis (M.A. - English) - University of Natal, 1989
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Writing white on black : modernism as discursive paradigm in South African writing on modern Black artVan Robbroeck, Lize 03 1900 (has links)
Thesis (PhD (Visual Arts))--University of Stellenbosch, 2006. / In this thesis I deconstruct key concepts, terminologies, and rhetorical conventions employed in white South
African writing on modern black art. I trace the genealogy of the dominant discursive practices of the
apartheid era to the cultural discourses of the colonial era, which in turn had their origins in the
Enlightenment. This genealogical tracing aims to demonstrate that South African art writing of the 20th
century partook of a tradition of Western writing that was primarily intent upon producing the Western
subject as a rational Enlightenment agent via the debased objectification of the colonial Other. In the
process of the deconstruction, I identify the most significant discursive shifts that occurred from the 1930’s,
when the first publications emerged, to the 1990’s, when South Africa’s new political dispensation opened
up a different cultural landscape.
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'n Bestekopname van die Afrikaanse roman 1934-1939 in terugblik vanuit die negentigerjare. / A survey of the Afrikaans novel from the period 1934-1939 from a nineties perspectiveHoward, Elsabé Loïs 11 1900 (has links)
Text in Afrikaans / Hierdie studie is 'n herskepping van die wereld van die Afrikaanse roman van 1934-1939. Al die
romans is bekom en gelees. Die beskikbaarheid van hierdie romans word aangedui. 'n Sketsmatige
beeld van elke roman word gegee, waarin die aard daarvan aangetoon word ten opsigte van die
volgende aspekte: milieu, tema en konflik (moreel, religieus, maatskaplik, polities). Die lotgevalle
van hierdie romans is nagegaan aan die hand van tydgenootlike resepsiegeskiedenis, sowel as die
van die literatuurgeskiedskrywing tot op hede. Hieruit het dit geblyk dat sekere romans aanvanklik
hoog aangeslaan is, maar nie in die kanon opgeneem is nie. Moontlike redes hiervoor word
ondersoek. Na my oordeel verdien Die loutering van Petrus deur Ella Fischer en Die jare daarna
deur Aletta Steyn 'n herbesoek. Albei romans is boeiend en interessant, die karakters "lewe" en dit
wat hul beleef en ervaar, spreek steeds tot die leser van die negentigerjare / This study is a recreation of the world of the Afrikaans novel of 1934-1939. All the novels were
obtained and read. The availability of these novels is indicated. A schematic account of each novel
is given, in which the nature of each is explicated in respect of the following aspects: milieu, theme
and conflict (moral, religious, social and political). The fate of these novels was researched in the
context of their contemporary reception history and that of literary historiography to date. From
the study it appears that certain novels were initially highly acclaimed, but were not included in the
canon. Possible reasons for this are investigated. It is my opinion that Die loutering van Petrus by
Ella Fischer and Die }are daarna by Aletta Steyn need to be re-evaluated. Both novels are
absorbing and interesting, the characters are lifelike and their life experiences are still relevant to
the reader of the nineties / Afrikaans & Theory of Literature / M.A. (Afrikaans)
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