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Die drukking van dakke : ruimtelikheid en morele agentskap in Gert Vlok Nel se digbundel "om te lewe is onnatuurlik” en “Veelvuldige gebruike vir huishoudelike toestelle”
Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/79962 Die drukking van dakke : ruimtelikheid en morele agentskap in Gert Vlok Nel se digbundel "om te lewe is onnatuurlik” en “Veelvuldige gebruike vir huishoudelike toestelle” Veelvuldige gebruike vir huishoudelike toestelle Bezuidenhout, Andries Jacobus Van Niekerk, Marlene Anker, Willem Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Afrikaans and Dutch. Space in literature Poetry -- Moral aspects Dissertations -- Creative writing Theses -- Creative writing Nel, Gert Vlok -- Om te lewe is onnatuurlik Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2013. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die eerste gedeelte van hierdie tesis ondersoek die ruimtelike basis vir morele agentskap in Gert Vlok Nel se digbundel om te lewe is onnatuurlik. As teoretiese raamwerk word daar van die teoloog/letterkundige Wesley Kort, die letterkundige/sosioloog Irma du Plessis en die radikale geograaf David Harvey se werk gebruik gemaak. Kwessies soos die (i) wisselwerking tussen omvattende, sosiale en intieme ruimtes deur narratiewe ruimtelikheid in poësie, (ii) die onstandvastigheid van die onderskeid tussen private en openbare ruimtes en (iii) verkillende vorms van ruimtelikheid, soos absolute, relatiewe en relasionele ruimtes, asook materiële ruimte, gerepresenteerde ruimte en ruimtes van representasie kom aan die bod. Daar word aangevoer dat Gert Vlok Nel se bewustelike plasing van homself as randfiguurdigter binne die Afrikaanse literêre sisteem as vorm van morele agentskap gesien kan word. Verder word getoon dat, as om te lewe is onnatuurlik in geheel en as familiekroniek gelees word, die onderskeid tussen private en openbare ruimtes waar geweld en trauma plaasvind ondergrawe word en sodoende politieke magskwessies as persoonliketiese kwessies herdefinieer. Laastens word argument gevoer dat, alhoewel die sprekerdigter in die bundel (“Gert”, of “Gertjie”) op die oog af gebrekkige agentskap blyk te toon, die besonderse tydruimtelike plasing van die spreker-digter die moontlikheid vir verruiming van agentskap skep en sodoende die idee van versplinterde subjek uitdaag. Hierdie akademiese opstel hou verband met die kreatiewe gedeelte van die tesis, digbundel getiteld Veelvuldige gebruike vir huishoudelike toestelle, waarin huishoudelike ruimtes as vertrekpunt gebruik word om kwessies soos morele verantwoordbaarheid, kreatiewe aandadigheid, post-koloniale manlikheid, sosiale verandering en trauma te ondersoek. ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The first part of this thesis investigates the spatial grounds for moral agency in Gert Vlok Nel’s collection of poems om te lewe is onnatuurlik [“to live is unnatural”]. The works of theologian/literary theorist Wesley Kort, literary theorist/sociologist Irma du Plessis and radical geographer David Harvey are used as theoretical framing. Matters such as (i) the interplay between encompassing, social and intimate spaces through narrative spatiality in poetry, (ii) flawed distinctions between private and public space, and (iii) different forms of spatiality, such as absolute, relative and relational space, as well as material space, represented space and spaces of representation are explored. It is argued that Gert Vlok Nel’s conscious positioning of himself as poetic outsider within the Afrikaans literary system can be seen as a form of moral agency. Furthermore, it is pointed out that a reading of om te lewe is onnatuurlik in its entirety, as family chronicle, destabilises the distinction between private and public spaces where violence and trauma occur, thereby recasting political power as questions of personal ethics. Finally it is argued that, although the narrator-poet in die collection (“Gert”, or “Gertjie”) seems to lack agency, the peculiar spatio-temporal placing of the narrator-poet nevertheless opens up room for the possibility of agency and by doing this, challenges the idea of a splintered subject. This academic essay is related to the creative part of this thesis, a collection of poems titled Veelvuldige gebruike vir huishoudelike toestelle [“Multiple uses for domestic appliances”], in which household space is used as a vantage point from which to interrogate issues such as moral responsibility, creative complicity, postcolonial masculinities, social change and trauma. Masters 2013-02-18T08:06:06Z 2013-03-15T07:28:48Z 2013-02-18T08:06:06Z 2013-03-15T07:28:48Z 2013-03 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/79962 af_ZA Stellenbosch University 171 p. : ill. application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Space in literature Poetry -- Moral aspects Dissertations -- Creative writing Theses -- Creative writing Nel, Gert Vlok -- Om te lewe is onnatuurlik Bezuidenhout, Andries Jacobus Die drukking van dakke : ruimtelikheid en morele agentskap in Gert Vlok Nel se digbundel "om te lewe is onnatuurlik” en “Veelvuldige gebruike vir huishoudelike toestelle” |
| title | Die drukking van dakke : ruimtelikheid en morele agentskap in Gert Vlok Nel se digbundel "om te lewe is onnatuurlik” en “Veelvuldige gebruike vir huishoudelike toestelle” |
| title_full | Die drukking van dakke : ruimtelikheid en morele agentskap in Gert Vlok Nel se digbundel "om te lewe is onnatuurlik” en “Veelvuldige gebruike vir huishoudelike toestelle” |
| title_fullStr | Die drukking van dakke : ruimtelikheid en morele agentskap in Gert Vlok Nel se digbundel "om te lewe is onnatuurlik” en “Veelvuldige gebruike vir huishoudelike toestelle” |
| title_full_unstemmed | Die drukking van dakke : ruimtelikheid en morele agentskap in Gert Vlok Nel se digbundel "om te lewe is onnatuurlik” en “Veelvuldige gebruike vir huishoudelike toestelle” |
| title_short | Die drukking van dakke : ruimtelikheid en morele agentskap in Gert Vlok Nel se digbundel "om te lewe is onnatuurlik” en “Veelvuldige gebruike vir huishoudelike toestelle” |
| title_sort | die drukking van dakke ruimtelikheid en morele agentskap in gert vlok nel se digbundel om te lewe is onnatuurlik en veelvuldige gebruike vir huishoudelike toestelle |
| topic | Space in literature Poetry -- Moral aspects Dissertations -- Creative writing Theses -- Creative writing Nel, Gert Vlok -- Om te lewe is onnatuurlik |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/79962 |
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