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Between the lines : writing with, against and beyond prescribed models of "colouredness"
Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2022.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/125092 Between the lines : writing with, against and beyond prescribed models of "colouredness" Biscombe, Cleo Sanger, Nadia Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of English. Colored people (South Africa) -- Ethnic identity Colored people (South Africa) -- In literature South African literature (English) -- History and criticism Group identity in literature Postcolonialism in literature Short stories, South African (English) -- Writing UCTD Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2022. ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Throughout recorded history, South African “coloured” identities have been precariously positioned midway between “black” and “white”, within a hierarchy of racialisation. Contemporary conceptualisations of “colouredness” have evolved to acknowledge the intricacies of what it means to operate under the term “coloured”, a contentious term which carries a multitude of meanings across this diverse socio-cultural group. The oversimplified definition of “colouredness” as the result of “race mixture” is rooted in a longstanding history of subjugation, a history that continues to influence contemporary understandings and expressions of what it means to be “coloured”. Thus, in the widely accessible and popular media, expressions of “coloured” cultural experiences are often framed within contexts where the numerous forms of violence enabled by colonialism and apartheid are foregrounded as defining features of “colouredness”. This thesis consists of a collection of short stories written in response to dominant literary expressions of “coloured” cultural experiences. The contents are drawn from personal, subjective experiences, and they attempt to underline the particularities that influence individual cultural identities. My insistence on singularity is to foreground the multiplicity of cultural existences that operate under the term “coloured”, and thus contests the idea that “coloured” identities are fixed and homogenous. Alongside fragments of formal theoretical reflections, the stories simultaneously engage and contest narrative patterns of foregrounding particular forms of violence for the authentication of “coloured” experiences, and attempts to accommodate a wider range of experiences which can also be recognised as “coloured”, and not excluded due to a lack of these particular forms of violence. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Deur die aangetekende geskiedenis, is Suid Afrikaanse “bruin” identiteite halfpad tussen “wit” en “swart” geplaas, binne ‘n ras-gebasseerde hierargie. Hedendaagse konseptualiserings van “bruin” identitiete is aangepas om die verwikkeldhede van wat dit beteken om onder die term “coloured” (bruin) te bestaan, te erken. Hierdie omstrede term bevat ‘n veelheid van betekenisse regoor hierdie uiteenlopende sosio-kulturele groep. Die oorvereenvoudigde definisie van “bruin” wees as ‘n resultaat van “rassemengsel”, is gewortel in ‘n gevestigde geskiedenis van onderwerping, ‘n geskiedenis wat aanhou om hedendaagse begrippe en uitdrukkings van wat dit beteken om “bruin” te wees, te beinvloed. Dus word uitdrukkings van “bruin” kulturele ervaringe in die wyd toeganklike, welbekende media dikwels omraam deur kontekste waar die talle vorme van geweld wat deur kolonialisme en apartheid moontlik gemaak is, en dit word op die voorgrond geplaas as kenmerkende elemente van “bruin” wees. Hierdie tesis bestaan uit 'n versameling van kortverhale wat geskryf is in reaksie op dominante literêre uitdrukkings van "bruin" kulturele ervarings. Die inhoud is geput uit persoonlike, subjektiewe ervarings en poog om die besonderhede wat individuele kulturele identiteite beïnvloed, te onderstreep. My aandrang op singulariteit is om die veelheid van kulturele ervarings wat onder die term “coloured” funksioneer, op die voorgrond te plaas, en bestry dus die idee dat “bruin” identiteite vas en homogeen is. Tesame met fragmente van formele teoretiese refleksies, betrek en bestry die verhale narratiewe patrone wat bepaalde vorme van geweld beklemtoon vir die verifikasie van "bruin" ervarings, en dit poog om 'n wyer reeks ervarings te akkommodeer, wat ook as "bruin" herken kan word, en nie uitgesluit word weens 'n gebrek aan hierdie spesifieke vorme van geweld nie. Masters 2022-03-03T12:07:15Z 2022-04-29T12:53:38Z 2022-03-03T12:07:15Z 2022-04 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/125092 en Stellenbosch University 88 pages application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Colored people (South Africa) -- Ethnic identity Colored people (South Africa) -- In literature South African literature (English) -- History and criticism Group identity in literature Postcolonialism in literature Short stories, South African (English) -- Writing UCTD Biscombe, Cleo Between the lines : writing with, against and beyond prescribed models of "colouredness" |
| title | Between the lines : writing with, against and beyond prescribed models of "colouredness" |
| title_full | Between the lines : writing with, against and beyond prescribed models of "colouredness" |
| title_fullStr | Between the lines : writing with, against and beyond prescribed models of "colouredness" |
| title_full_unstemmed | Between the lines : writing with, against and beyond prescribed models of "colouredness" |
| title_short | Between the lines : writing with, against and beyond prescribed models of "colouredness" |
| title_sort | between the lines writing with against and beyond prescribed models of colouredness |
| topic | Colored people (South Africa) -- Ethnic identity Colored people (South Africa) -- In literature South African literature (English) -- History and criticism Group identity in literature Postcolonialism in literature Short stories, South African (English) -- Writing UCTD |
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