Thesis (DLitt (Afrikaans and Dutch))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation explores Antjie Krog as translator within the Afrikaans and English
literary field in South Africa. The focus of the study is primarily on Krog’s translation of
her own work, namely her prose works Country of my skull and A change of tongue/’n
Ander tongval, and poetry Down to my last skin, die sterre sê ‘tsau’/the stars say ‘tsau’
and Verweerskrif/Body bereft. Although Krog is also renowned for her work as translator
of others’ work, the concept self translation is particularly relevant for this study: to write
through translation and translate through writing.
The study has a dual objective: on a polysystemic level Krog’s position and status as
translator and that of her translation products within the Afrikaans and English literary
field in South Africa is researched; on a sociocultural level Bourdieu’s concept habitus is
employed in order to explore the underlying force behind Krog’s translation process. The
focus throughout is on Krog’s double writing, the overlapping of the act of writing and
the act of translating as it resonates on textual and metatextual level. Although a
Bourdieusian reading of translations is a relatively unexplored terrain in the South
African translation field, this study aims to add fresh insights into a dispositional view of
the translator in his or her space within the literary field.
In the course of this study philosophical concepts of Deleuze and Guattari, Kristeva and
Bhabha are employed. Deleuze and Guattari’s concept minor literature is employed
insofar the act of translation and the translation product reflects a different subjectivity.
Kristeva’s concept the abject is likewise explored in the way it is reflected in Krog’s
writing and translating. In the end it is argued that Krog, when writing in her non-mother
tongue and when translating, is situated in a hybrid space, an in-between space. This
study thus shifts from a polysystemic analysis of Krog’s translation products to a more
individual approach and the notion that Krog’s habitus as writer is inextricably linked to
her habitus as translator; that translation is an embodied process. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie proefskrif is ’n studie van Antjie Krog as vertaler binne die Afrikaanse en
Engelse literêre veld in Suid-Afrika. In hierdie studie word daar slegs op Krog se
vertaling van haar eie werk gekonsentreer, naamlik die prosawerke Country of my skull
en A change of tongue/’n Ander tongval, en die poësie Down to my last skin, die sterre sê
‘tsau’/the stars say ‘tsau’ en Verweerskrif/Body bereft. Hoewel Krog ook as vertaler van
ander skrywers se werk bekend is, is dit veral die konsep selfvertaling wat in hierdie
studie van belang is: om te skryf deur vertaling en vertaal deur te skryf.
Die studie neem ’n tweeledige vorm aan: op ’n polisistemiese vlak word die posisie en
status van Krog as vertaler, en ook van haar vertaalprodukte binne die Afrikaanse en
Engelse literêre veld in Suid-Afrika ondersoek; op ’n sosiokulturele vlak word Bourdieu
se konsep habitus ingespan ten einde die onderliggende dryfvere agter die vertaalproses
van Krog te ondersoek. Die deurlopende fokus is op die dubbele skrywerskap van Krog;
die oorvleueling van die skryfhandeling en vertaalhandeling soos dit op tekstuele en
metatekstuele vlak resoneer. Alhoewel ’n sosiokulturele (Bourdieuaanse) lesing van
vertaaltekste ’n relatief onbekende terrein in Suid-Afrikaanse vertaalteoretiese kringe is,
wil hierdie studie aantoon dat ’n disposisionele beskouing van die vertaler in sy of haar
ruimte binne die literêre veld vars insigte bring.
Deur die loop van die studie word filosofiese konsepte van Deleuze en Guattari, Kristeva
en Bhabha betrek. Deleuze en Guattari se denkinstrument van ’n mineurletterkunde word
ingespan sover die vertaalhandeling en -produk ’n andersoortige subjektiwiteit
weerspieël. Hierbenewens word Kristeva se konsep van die abjekte in Krog se skryf- en
vertaalhandeling ondersoek. Uiteindelik word dit aangevoer dat Krog as vertaler binne ’n
hibriede ruimte, ’n tussenruimte funksioneer wanneer sy in Engels skryf en wanneer sy
vertaal. Hierdie studie beweeg dus van ’n polisistemiese ondersoek na Krog se
vertaalprodukte tot by ’n meer individuele ondersoek na die beskouing dat Krog se
habitus as skrywer onlosmaaklik verbind is aan haar habitus as vertaler, en dat die proses
van vertaling ’n beliggaamde proses is.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:sun/oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/4011 |
| Date | 03 1900 |
| Creators | Vosloo, Frances Antoinette |
| Contributors | Feinauer, Ilse, Viljoen, Louise, 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 |
| Detected Language | Unknown |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 252 p. |
| Rights | University of Stellenbosch |
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