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Presenting the prison : the South African prison autobiography under apartheid
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 280-290).
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Department of English Language and Literature
2014
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/8099 Presenting the prison : the South African prison autobiography under apartheid Roux, Daniël English Language and Literature Includes bibliographical references (leaves 280-290). This thesis investigates a range of South African autobiographical accounts of imprisonment, most of them by political prisoners under apartheid. Its principal focus is on the ways in which the prison as physical and ideological space intersects with a conscious literary construction of identity. The argument is that in these accounts, the prison features as both object and subject: it appears as one of the objects of description, a referent among others in a structured succession of events, but in fact it also serves as the very frame that enables and structures the consciousness that speaks about - and from within - the prison. In other words, the prison is one of the important coercive instruments that governed the forms of consciousness, literary and otherwise, that emerged in South Africa under apartheid. A broader topic engaged by this discussion is therefore also the role played by materially based disciplinary structures in the emergence of autobiographical literary forms. 2014-10-06T11:06:32Z 2014-10-06T11:06:32Z 2007 Doctoral Thesis Doctoral PhD http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8099 eng application/pdf Department of English Language and Literature Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
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| title | Presenting the prison : the South African prison autobiography under apartheid |
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