This study places the poetry of Ingrid de Kok in a critical context that is strongly
influenced by the political climate.
Unlike political rhetoric, the nature of the lyrical poem is personal and complex,
arguably rendering it defunct in a democracy that seeks to serve majority interests.
De Kok’s challenge is to be a lyrical poet in the public sphere, to contain and
represent the public interest within the personal form. I will examine how she rises to
the historical occasion and extends her medium to incorporate the public event.
At the same time, if she is to retain her voice as a lyrical poet, she must guard the
privacy of its expression and the intimate spaces it seeks to delineate. In this way she
asserts the validity of every-day concerns and of spaces traditionally designated as
female.
By interrogating the categories of personal and public I hope to project a complex
vision of the possibilities of the lyric within contemporary South Africa. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2010.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:ukzn/oai:http://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za:10413/4645 |
| Date | January 2010 |
| Creators | Gray, Denise. |
| Contributors | Chapman, M. |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | en_ZA |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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