Thesis (MA (VA)--Stellenbosch University, 2011. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The thesis investigate the family narrative. While engaging specifically with my female
family narrative, it essentially questions how and why we create and perpetuate this narrative
of absence and presence. The acts of memory, autobiography, testimony and the subsequent
creation of the archive are probed. Such probes attempt to enter the sphere of the unsayable
and unsaid, partially lifting the female existence, identity and body from the silence
surrounding the private and intimate realm she dwells in.
The creation and recreation of meaning through the use and manipulation of time and
language is examined through-out whilst continually reading absence as presence. This is
done in order to locate and access the silent and forgotten. The thesis problematises the
notion of the ‘I’ and the ‘initial’ through looking at the repercussions of the employing
linearity. Ultimately, this writing process reveals the contradictions and dualities we both
create and aim to obliterate within the individual and collective composition of the family
narrative. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis ondersoek die familienarratief. Terwyl dit spesifiek die vroulike familienarratief
bespreek bevraagteken dit hoe en hoekom ons die narratief van afwesigheid en
teenwoordigheid skep en voortsit. Die dade van onthou, outobiografie, getuienis, en die
daaropvolgende ontstaan van die argief, word gepeil. Hierdie ondersoeke poog om die sfeer
van die ‘ongesêde’ en die ‘onsêbare’ binne te dring, en so die vroulike bestaan, identiteit en
liggaam te bevry uit die stilte van die ‘private’ en die intieme terrein waarbinne sy woon.
Die skep en herskep van betekenis deur die gebruik en manipulasie van taal en tyd word
deurlopend ondersoek, terwyl afwesigheid as aanwesigheid gelees word. Dit word gedoen in
orde om die stilte en vergete te vind en toegang daartoe te bewerkstellig. Die tesis
problematiseer die begrip van die ‘ek’ en die ‘initiële’ deur na die reperkussies van die
toepassing en gebruik van lineariteit te kyk. Uiteindelik onthul die skryfproses die
kontradiksies en dualiteite wat ons beide skep asook poog om uit te wis binne die individuele
en kollektiewe komposisie van die familie narratief.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:sun/oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/18032 |
| Date | 12 1900 |
| Creators | Van Heerden, Lorinda |
| Contributors | Gunter, Elizabeth, Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Visual Arts. |
| Publisher | Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | en_ZA |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 201 p. |
| Rights | Stellenbosch University |
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