The author's inaugural dissertation, Munich, 1928. / "Literaturverzeichnis": p. [155]-157.

The author's inaugural dissertation, Munich, 1928. / "Literaturverzeichnis": p. [155]-157.

This thesis is a monograph of South African poet and artist, Wopko Jensma. Jensma's published anthologies, Sing/or Our Execution (1973), Where White is the Colour, Where Black is the Number (1974) and Have You Seen My Clippings (1977) together with the relatively unknown and unpublished, Blood and More Blood deal with issues of identity relating to race and class within the context of apartheid South Africa in the nineteen seventies. These four anthologies represent a poetics of resistance conceived as an antidote to personal and social suffering as a result of the racist oppression of blacks in South Africa. Jensma's experimental poetry harnesses the signatures of jazz lyrics, concrete poetry, the avantgarde as well as African dance forms in bizarre cameos of underclass misery and racial oppression. In lieu of metrical regularity and rhyme the aesthetic experience is simulated by asemantic qualities of speech, sound and rhythmic undulations in a poetry characterised by what Samuel Beckett has called "the withdrawal of semantic crutches" (Schwab 1994:6). Jensma's schizoid discourse manifests itself as an asocial dialect with highly personal idioms, approximate phrases and substitutes which make his language extremely difficult to follow at times. Jensma's diction of private idiomatic language, mixing of dialects, the use of syncopation, ellipsis and experimental topography have no doubt contributed to the cryptic and arcane aberrations associated with schizophrenia. This schizoid versification is a paradoxical wish to protect the core of oneself from communication whilst simultaneously expressing the need to be discovered and acknowledged. This private idiomatic language reveal ordinary people driven into interior psychological spaces, as well as psychotic and surreal extremes in order to survive an overwhelming and implosive reality. Jensma's textual strategies deconstruct modernist assumptions about rationality, domination and meaning as a tyranny of power. The socially constructed self is exposed as a subject disempowered and alienated by ideologies which demand acquiescence and which offer false assurances in return. Likewise, the schizoid scrambling of the signifier is an attempt to repel the subjection implicit in rationalist discourse and to encourage an awareness of the world ideologically sanctioned by its dominant discourses. This study begins with a detailed biography of Jensma. The next chapter establishes the theoretical assumptions which inform the interface between Jensma's poetry and schizophrenia. Jensma's poetry is then systematically appraised in terms of themes, form and subjectivity. The last chapter is a study of the intertextual relations which provide insight into the context and milieii in which Jensma wrote and which permit a reading of Jensma's poetry as a discursive space in which different literary histories co-exist and respond to one another. The thesis concludes with an evaluation of Jensma's poetry as a pathological yet incisive response to the reductive politics ofracial essence, cultural crisis and the vagaries of consumer culture. / Thesis (Ph.D)-University of Durban-Westville, 2002.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-09-15T12:24:45Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcela Ferreira de Moura.pdf: 677296 bytes, checksum: e2348c4e9a180e5cbd8c3f8add2a511b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-15T12:24:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcela Ferreira de Moura.pdf: 677296 bytes, checksum: e2348c4e9a180e5cbd8c3f8add2a511b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-09-04 / The present work studies the poetic and geographical landscape in Josoaldo Lima Rêgo's poetry, a Brazilian poet from Maranhão. We aim to capture the dialogue between literature and landscape, as well as understand the geographic space configured on this poet's poetry, also reflect on the construction of the landscape as a poetic factor. To reach our objectives, we have selected the following problematization: to what extent is the space a key that articulates a dialogue between geography and literature? How is the landscape configured in the geographical-poetic space of Josoaldo's poems? To what extent does the poet express geopoetics and geography through his poems? From that, we present the poetic dialogue in Josoaldo Lima Rêgo's poetry with other poets, such as: Roberto Piva, T. S. Eliot, André Breton, Octavio Paz, among others. Our theoretical foundation is centered on scholars such as: Michel Collot, Milton Santos, Maurice Blanchot, Marc Brosseau, Jean-Marc Besse, presenting us with the idea of landscape shaped by the gaze. We emphasize here the importance of Josoaldo Lima Rêgo's poetics for Brazilian literature. Its geography and geopoetics presents a dimension that is available to space, to politics, to social, for poetry and earth / Este trabalho estuda a paisagem poética e geográfica na poesia de Josoaldo Lima Rêgo, poeta maranhense. Tem como objetivo captar o diálogo entre literatura e paisagem, bem como apreender o espaço geográfico configurado na poesia desse poeta, assim como refletir sobre a construção da paisagem como fator poético. Para atingir esses objetivos, seleciona a seguinte problematização: até que ponto o espaço é uma chave que articula o diálogo entre geografia e literatura? Como a paisagem é configurada no espaço geográfico-poético de seus poemas? Até que ponto o poeta expressa a geopoética e geograficidade por meio de seus poemas? Apresenta o diálogo poético da poesia de Josoaldo Lima Rêgo com outros poetas, como: Roberto Piva, T. S. Eliot, André Breton, Octavio Paz, entre outros. A fundamentação teórica está centrada em estudiosos como: Michel Collot, Milton Santos, Maurice Blanchot, Marc Brosseau, Jean-Marc Besse, que nos apresenta a ideia de paisagem configurada pelo olhar. Ressalta-se, aqui, a importância da poética de Josoaldo Lima Rêgo para nossa literatura. Sua geograficidade e geopoética apresenta uma dimensão corporal que está à disposição do espaço, da política e do social para a poesia e para a terra