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Seeing ghosts : the past in contemporary images of Afrikaner self-representation
Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2016.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/100052 Seeing ghosts : the past in contemporary images of Afrikaner self-representation Sonnekus, Theo Van Robbroeck, Lize Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Visual Arts Afrikaners -- Ethnic identity Commodification Neo-tribalism Youth culture UCTD Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2016. ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Contemporary Afrikaner ethnic identity is subject to attempts at rehabilitation, which seek to fit Afrikaner whiteness to the post-apartheid milieu. This thesis investigates how popular visual culture, aimed particularly at the white Afrikaner consumer, provides transformative identity-positions by ingeniously re-imagining Afrikanerness. The potential of such images for identity- and memory-work is explored in relation to the various conditions (political, historical, economic or otherwise) that determine their social and psychological significance. The thesis particularly accounts for the manner in which the past is refigured (with varying degrees of criticality and self-reflexivity) in these consumer items and advertisements, and explores their deployment of discursive devices such as irony, hybridisation, nostalgia, and collective memory. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die onsekerheid gekoppel aan hedendaagse Afrikaner etniese identiteit is onderhewig aan betekenisvolle diskursiewe strategieë daarop gemik om witheid te rehabiliteer, en dus aan te pas tot die post-apartheid milieu. Hierdie tesis ondersoek die herskeppende potensiaal van visuele kultuur om die konstruksie van verbeeldingryke Afrikaner identiteite te bevorder. Die verskeie omstandighede (polities, histories, ekonomies of andersins) wat ‘n impak het op die sosiale en sielkundige onderhandeling van identiteit en kollektiewe herinnering word deurgaans bespreek. Die tesis ondersoek finaal die manier waarop die verlede herroep word in kontemporêre beelde en verbruikersgoedere wat fikseer op Afrikaner etniese identiteit (met uiteenlopende vlakke van self-refleksiwiteit en -kritiek), en is geïnteresseerd in die manier waarop hierdie verskynsels aansluit by die diskursiewe werking van ironie, hibridisering, nostalgie en kollektiewe herinnering. Doctoral 2016-12-22T13:09:44Z 2016-12-22T13:09:44Z 2016-12 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/100052 en_ZA Stellenbosch University 179 pages : illustrations application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Afrikaners -- Ethnic identity Commodification Neo-tribalism Youth culture UCTD Sonnekus, Theo Seeing ghosts : the past in contemporary images of Afrikaner self-representation |
| title | Seeing ghosts : the past in contemporary images of Afrikaner self-representation |
| title_full | Seeing ghosts : the past in contemporary images of Afrikaner self-representation |
| title_fullStr | Seeing ghosts : the past in contemporary images of Afrikaner self-representation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Seeing ghosts : the past in contemporary images of Afrikaner self-representation |
| title_short | Seeing ghosts : the past in contemporary images of Afrikaner self-representation |
| title_sort | seeing ghosts the past in contemporary images of afrikaner self representation |
| topic | Afrikaners -- Ethnic identity Commodification Neo-tribalism Youth culture UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/100052 |
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