Thesis (M.Phil) -- University of Stellenbosch, 2000 / 230 leaves printed single pages,numbered pages 1-230.Includes bibliography.Digitized at 600 dpi grayscale to pdf format (OCR),using an Bizhub 250 Konica Minolta Scanner. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Anton Kannemeyer and Conrad Botes have been publishing Bitterkomix,, their comics magazine,
for nearly a decade in South Africa. These comics are a structured satyrical attack on the South
African and specifically Afrikaans culture. Both artists employ different narrative strategies to
convey their sometimes shocking message. The reaction on their writing and drawing shows an
unwillingness in certain academic circles to analyse their texts critically. As a result Bitterkomix
has drawn very little academic attention. This unwillingness is a product of the modernist
approach to the comic as "low" literature. Modernists didn't regard comics as worthy material
for critical analyses. The literary paradigm shift towards popular culture, and therefore comics,
and the pluralistic reading strategy ofpostmodemism make it possible for an academic approach
towards this previously ill-treated art form.
This thesis is an attempt to suggest an approach strategy to Bitterkomix as a South African
underground comics magazine. As a backdrop the study looks at the development of comics in
general, as well as the changes that took place in the traditional approach strategies to the modem
comic. It also focusses on selected texts by Kannemeyer and Botes to demonstrate how
Bitterlwmix functions as an underground comic in the changing South African society. The
writers draw upon methods and strategies used by underground comix artists in the United States
during the sixties. Their specific employment of the drawing styles and narrative contents of
artists like Robert Crumb, S. Clay Wilson and also the Belgian artist, Herge, makes
intertextuality one of the strongest postmodemist aspects of Bitterlwmix. Botes's and
Kannemeyer's combined use of intertextuality and other postmodemist metafictional narrative
strategies gives Bitterlwmix a literary value that requires an academic approach. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Anton Kannemeyer en Conrad Botes se strokiestydskrif Bitterkomix verskyn reeds bykans 'n
dekade in Suid-Afrika. Hulle strokies, wat van 'n akademiese en literere uitgangspunt getuig, is
'n berekende satiriese aanval op die Suid-Afrikaanse samelewing en meer spesifiek die
Afrikanerdom. Beide skrywers span 'n verskeidenheid vertelstrategiee in om hulle somtyds
skokkende boodskap oor te dra. Die reaksie op hulle skryf- en tekenwerk spreek egter van 'n
onvermoe ofonwilligheid by die akademici om die tekste op kritiese wyse te analiseer. Gevolglik
het Bilterkomix tot dusver min akademiese aandag gekry. Hierdie onvermoe stam myns insiens
moontlik uit 'n modemistiese miskenning van die strokie as kunsvorm. Strokies is as "lae"
literatuur gekategoriseer en is volgens modemiste dus nie geskikte materiaal vir 'n diepsinnige
bespreking me. Die literere paradigma ten opsigte van populere kultuur en dus strokies het egter
intussen verander en die pluralistiese leesstrategie van 'n postrnodemistiese benadering maak dit
moontlik om akademiese aandag aan hierdie voorheen miskende kunsvorm te skenk.
Die tesis is 'n poging om 'n benaderingswyse voor te stel tot Bitterkomix as Suid-Afrikaanse
underground-strokiestydskrif. As agtergrondstudie ondersoek dit die ontstaan en ontwikkeling
van die strokie in die algemeen, asook die veranderinge wat plaasgevind het in die tradisionele
benaderingswyses tot die modeme strokie. Daama fokus die bespreking op geselekteerde tekste
uit die oeuvres van Botes en Kannemeyer om te probeer aantoon hoe Bitterkomix as
underground-strokie binne die veranderende Suid-Afrikaanse samelewing funksioneer. Die
skrywers gebruik onder andere uitgangspunte en strategiee van die underground-strokie, soos dit
veral in die sestigerjare in Arnerika gevind is. Hulle doelbewuste inspeling op beide die
tekenstyle en verhaalinhoude van skrywers soos Robert Crumb, S. Clay Wilson asook die
Belgiese Herge maak intertekstualiteit een van die sterkste postmodemistiese kenmerke van
Bitterkomix. Botes en Kannemeyer se gebruik van intertekstualiteit, metafiksionaliteit, en ander
postrnodemistiese vertelstrategiee verleen aan Bitterkomix 'n literere kwaliteit wat om 'n
akademiese benaderingswyse vra. / Instituut vir Navorsingsontwikkeling van die Raad vir
Geesteswetenskaplike Navorsing
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:sun/oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/930 |
| Date | 03 1900 |
| Creators | Rheeder, A. O. I. |
| Contributors | Van Zyl, D. P., University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Afrikaans and Dutch. |
| Publisher | Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | Afrikaans |
| Detected Language | Unknown |
| Type | Thesis |
| Rights | University of Stellenbosch |
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