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David Kramer – an unauthorised biography and creative nonfiction : writing an unauthorised biography of David Kramer
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2011.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/29006 David Kramer – an unauthorised biography and creative nonfiction : writing an unauthorised biography of David Kramer Pieterse, Henning Jonathan, 1960- mmaccani@hotmail.com Maccani, Mario Approach to biographical subject Make-believe Influences Research ethics Bilingualism Conjecturing Propaganda David kramer Writing process Text Biography Novel Subjectivity Objectivity Truth Fact Faction Creative nonfiction Nonfiction Fiction Intertextuality Fictionalisation UCTD Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2011. This study is comprised of two parts: an unauthorised biography of the South African musician David Kramer, as well as a reflective look at the process of writing this biography. In this regard the following aspects were looked at closely: finding an appropriate style, biography versus propaganda, conjecturing, the bilingual nature of the text, problems of research, ethics, influences, make-believe, approach to the subject, intertextuality, and fictionalisation. The central question of the biography is to highlight the success of a fellow Worcester (the author’s hometown) boy. The central research questions of the thesis are the fictionalisation of the nonfiction text, intertextuality, and the question of a text written in both English and Afrikaans. With regard to the aforementioned fictionalisation, a biographical text is classified as “nonfiction”, because it deals with a real person and real events. However, a text such as David Kramer – an unauthorised biography presents an alternative perspective, in that the narrative often moves into fiction, or “creative nonfiction”. Written texts are traditionally divided into two fields: fiction or nonfiction. Nonfiction is deemed to be fact, truth, whereas fiction is the fruit of an author’s imagination. But perhaps the notion of truth versus untruth is too limited, and one should include the words “objectivity” and “subjectivity”. Some texts incorporate both elements, be they newspaper editorials which are mostly opinion, advertisements which are highly subjective, or biographies such as Taraborrelli’s Madonna – An Intimate Biography, which often reads as a novel. This doctoral thesis looks at David Kramer – an unauthorised biography, which is at times “faction”, to illuminate the sections where the text fell somewhere between fiction or nonfiction. In attempting this exercise, intertextuality was useful in two ways. Firstly, to ground the text in a reality the reader could believe, as it brought “real” things to the text, such as song lyrics, photographs, et cetera, all things which brought some credibility to the truth of the text, and secondly to place the events being described in a certain timeframe. The use of English and Afrikaans in the biography was to reflect that Kramer uses both languages in his songs, and furthermore, to give an idea of the South Africa at the time of Kramer’s early success: the divides of English/Afrikaans, white/black, liberal/conservative. Unit for Creative Writing Unrestricted 2013-09-07T14:40:39Z 2011-10-24 2013-09-07T14:40:39Z 2011-09-08 2011-10-24 2011-10-24 Thesis Maccani, M 2011, David Kramer – an unauthorised biography and creative nonfiction : writing an unauthorised biography of David Kramer, PhD thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29006 > D11/9/254/ag http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29006 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10242011-122443/ © 2011 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Approach to biographical subject Make-believe Influences Research ethics Bilingualism Conjecturing Propaganda David kramer Writing process Text Biography Novel Subjectivity Objectivity Truth Fact Faction Creative nonfiction Nonfiction Fiction Intertextuality Fictionalisation UCTD David Kramer – an unauthorised biography and creative nonfiction : writing an unauthorised biography of David Kramer |
| title | David Kramer – an unauthorised biography and creative nonfiction : writing an unauthorised biography of David Kramer |
| title_full | David Kramer – an unauthorised biography and creative nonfiction : writing an unauthorised biography of David Kramer |
| title_fullStr | David Kramer – an unauthorised biography and creative nonfiction : writing an unauthorised biography of David Kramer |
| title_full_unstemmed | David Kramer – an unauthorised biography and creative nonfiction : writing an unauthorised biography of David Kramer |
| title_short | David Kramer – an unauthorised biography and creative nonfiction : writing an unauthorised biography of David Kramer |
| title_sort | david kramer an unauthorised biography and creative nonfiction writing an unauthorised biography of david kramer |
| topic | Approach to biographical subject Make-believe Influences Research ethics Bilingualism Conjecturing Propaganda David kramer Writing process Text Biography Novel Subjectivity Objectivity Truth Fact Faction Creative nonfiction Nonfiction Fiction Intertextuality Fictionalisation UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29006 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10242011-122443/ |