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Whose story is it anyway? The ethics of narration and the narration of ethics in Summertime and Die Sneeuslaper
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/11159 Whose story is it anyway? The ethics of narration and the narration of ethics in Summertime and Die Sneeuslaper Holtzhausen, Janita English in Literature and Modernity Includes bibliographical references. This dissertation analyses and compares the narrative strategies in J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime and Marlene van Niekerk’s Die sneeuslaper and considers the implications of these strategies for the authors’ exploration of the ethics of writing. Much has been written about the literary oeuvres of both Coetzee and Van Niekerk, including studies of the translations of Van Niekerk’s Afrikaans novels into English. There are few “interlingual” comparative studies of contemporary works in Afrikaans and English, however, and certainly none to my knowledge which compares the work of Coetzee and Van Niekerk. My contribution to the conversation about Coetzee’s and Van Niekerk’s work, but also to an increasingly multilingual and interconnected South African literary criticism, will be a comparison of one recent work by each of these two authors, written in English and Afrikaans respectively. I draw on the theories of Bakhtin, Barthes and Levinas to consider the ethical dimension of texts in which “double-voicedness”, a questioning not only of existence, but of the self is fore grounded in the content and narrative structure; where there is a shift in focus from the author to the reader (“the birth of the reader”) and “utterances” are made with the response of “the other” in mind. 2015-01-03T18:10:22Z 2015-01-03T18:10:22Z 2013 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11159 eng application/pdf Department of English Language and Literature Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | English in Literature and Modernity Holtzhausen, Janita Whose story is it anyway? The ethics of narration and the narration of ethics in Summertime and Die Sneeuslaper |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Whose story is it anyway? The ethics of narration and the narration of ethics in Summertime and Die Sneeuslaper |
| title_full | Whose story is it anyway? The ethics of narration and the narration of ethics in Summertime and Die Sneeuslaper |
| title_fullStr | Whose story is it anyway? The ethics of narration and the narration of ethics in Summertime and Die Sneeuslaper |
| title_full_unstemmed | Whose story is it anyway? The ethics of narration and the narration of ethics in Summertime and Die Sneeuslaper |
| title_short | Whose story is it anyway? The ethics of narration and the narration of ethics in Summertime and Die Sneeuslaper |
| title_sort | whose story is it anyway the ethics of narration and the narration of ethics in summertime and die sneeuslaper |
| topic | English in Literature and Modernity |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11159 |
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