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Herinnering, geskiedenis, identiteit : 'n ondersoek na beeld en teks in mito-poesis

Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2002.

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Main Author: Kaden, Martha J.
Other Authors: Dietrich, Keith
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Language:Afrikaans
Published: Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch 2011
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spelling oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/8546 Herinnering, geskiedenis, identiteit : 'n ondersoek na beeld en teks in mito-poesis Kaden, Martha J. Dietrich, Keith Hattingh, J. P. University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Visual Arts Ivan Jacobs Dissertations -- Art Theses -- Art Dissertations -- Visual arts Theses -- Visual arts Language and culture -- South Africa Sociolinguistics -- South Africa Art -- Philosophy Metaphor -- Political aspects -- South Africa Art -- Social aspects -- South Africa Metafoor -- Sosiale aspekte Kuns -- Filosofie Kuns -- Sosiale aspekte Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2002. ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This investigation is informed by the assumption that language, as representation and as image, is positioned in a metaphorical relationship to reality. Language, as a structure of representation, is the way in which we represent reality to ourselves and to others and recreate the past, as well as the way in which we invest our lives with meaning, significance and experience. Language includes visual and verbal representation, and this investigation shows how image and text create a variety of multiple meanings through playful and interactive reciprocation. Following from the assumption that language comprises temporal and spatial qualities, it is also the terrain that enables us to know and understand reality, ourselves, and others. This emphasizes the material nature of language, which is also connected with social and cultural practices and, as such, involves reciprocation and interaction between divergences. Language is therefore a mode of action that makes the bridging of divisions possible. Language is proposed as a medium through which the monolithic hegemony of the apartheid past may be confronted within a multicultural South Africa. The aim of representing this past in my work is not to recall it as it was or to discover etemal, inheritable qualities, but rather to bring about re-demption (healing) through re-presentation. Re-demption and re-presentation is a textual practice that involves a re-script of the past. With the understanding that history and culture are regarded as text, re-writing the past does not involve representation as mimesis, but as production. This investigation recognizes the role of the subconscious as the other or the alterity in all language constructs that makes it possible to circumvent the logic of binary oppositions; entertain alternatives simultaneously; erase boundaries; share spaces, and discover the other in the self. This unconscious language of the other, as a strange doubling and interplay between near and far, gives rise to poies/s. The creation of multi-dimensional spaces that draw the poetical and the everyday into an imaginative and directed conceptual interplay as well as provoke dialogue between differences and diversities, engenders a desire for the complexity of the other. The interplay and recurrent movement across divisions and between paradoxes create a new and changed interspace, characterized by difference, plurality, and contradiction. Intertextual spaces allow relationships between differences and exist precisely as a result of dialogicity between diversities. In this way it is possible to establish, by virtue of difference, a mutual, interdependent relationship with the other. Metaphorical language requires an allegorical reading that places divergences in relation to one another, thereby causing a mythic animation of signification that moves from one level to another. Mytho-poeisis, as an allegorical structure, is proposed as a model by means of which symbolic transformation and redemption of the personal and collective psyche may occur. Poetic re-imagining as re-presentation impels change and transformation and points to other possible forms of social and ethical experiences. This impulse, to reconcile the social and the aesthetic, or the cultural with symbolic form, is based on the principle of reconciliation between art and life. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie ondersoek handhaaf die veronderstelling dat taal in 'n metaforiese verhouding tot die werklikheid staan as voorstelling en as beeld. Taal, as 'n struktuur van voorstelling, is die wyse waarop ons die werklikheid aan onsself en ander voorstel en die verlede herskep, asook die wyse waarop ons sin, betekenis en ervaring aan ons lewens verskaf. Taal sluit visuele en verbale voorstellings in en hierdie ondersoek toon op watter wyse beeld en teks in speelse en interaktiewe wisselwerking 'n verskeidenheid meersinnige betekenisse skep. Uitgaande van die veronderstelling dat taal temporele en ruimtelike kwaliteite betrek, is dit ook die terrein wat ons in staat stel om die werklikheid, onsself en ander te ken en verstaan. Dit beklemtoon die materiele aard van taal, wat ook met sosiale en kulturele praktyke verbind is en sodanig wisselwerking en interaksie tussen uiteenlopendhede betrek. Taal is dus 'n modus van doen, wat oorbrugging van skeidings moontlik maak. Taal word as 'n medium voorgestel waardeur die monolitiese hegemonie van die apartheidsverlede binne 'n multikulturele Suid-Afrika gekonfronteer word. Voorstelling van hierdie verlede in my werk is nie met die doel om dit te herroep soos dit was, of ewige, erfbare eienskappe te ontdek nie, maar eerder om herstel deur her-voorstelling te bewerkstellig. Her-stel en her-voorstelling is 'n tekstuele praktyk wat 'n re-skripsie van die verlede behels. Met begrip dat geskiedenis en kultuur as teks beskou word, behels die her-skryf van die verlede nie voorstelling as mimesis nie, maar as produksie. Hierdie ondersoek erken die rol van die onderbewussyn as die ander of die alteriteit (alterity) in alle taalvoorstellings wat dit moontlik maak om die logika van binere oposisies te omseil; alternatiewe gelyktydig in ag te neem; grense uit te wis, ruimtes te deel en die ander in die self te ontdek. Hierdie onbewuste taal van die ander, as 'n vreemde verdubbeling en spel tussen naby en ver, gee aanleiding tot poesis (poiesis). Die skep van multidimensionele ruimtes wat die poetiese en die alledaagse in 'n verbeeldingryke en gerigte konseptuele wisselspel betrek, asook dialoog tussen verskille en diversiteite bewerkstellig, skep 'n aandrang vir die kompleksiteit van die ander. Die interspel en ewigdurende beweging oor skeidings en tussen paradokse skep 'n nuwe en veranderde interruimte, wat gekenmerk word deur verskil, pluraliteit en kontradiksie. Intertekstuele ruimtes laat verskilsverhoudings toe en bestaan juis as gevolg van dialogisiteit tussen diversiteite. Op hierdie wyse is dit moontlik om op grond van verskil 'n wedersydse en interafhanklike verhouding met die ander aan te knoop. Metaforiese taalgebruik verg 'n allegoriese lees wat uiteenlopendhede in verhouding tot mekaar plaas sodat dit 'n mitiese animasie van betekening bewerkstellig wat vanaf een vlak na 'n ander vlak beweeg. Mito-poesis, as 'n allegoriese struktuur, word voorgestel as model waarvolgens simboliese transformasie en herstel van die persoonlike en kollektiewe psige kan geskied. Poetiese her-verbeelding as her-voorstelling motiveer verandering en transformasie en dui op ander moontlike vorms van sosiale en etiese ervarings. Hierdie impuls, om die sosiale en die estetiese, of om die kulturele met simboliese vorm te vereenselwig, berus op die beginsel van versoening tussen kuns en lewe. Masters 2011-05-03T07:10:19Z 2011-05-03T07:10:19Z 2002-03 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/8546 af University of Stellenbosch 191 p. application/pdf Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch
spellingShingle Dissertations -- Art
Theses -- Art
Dissertations -- Visual arts
Theses -- Visual arts
Language and culture -- South Africa
Sociolinguistics -- South Africa
Art -- Philosophy
Metaphor -- Political aspects -- South Africa
Art -- Social aspects -- South Africa
Metafoor -- Sosiale aspekte
Kuns -- Filosofie
Kuns -- Sosiale aspekte
Kaden, Martha J.
Herinnering, geskiedenis, identiteit : 'n ondersoek na beeld en teks in mito-poesis
title Herinnering, geskiedenis, identiteit : 'n ondersoek na beeld en teks in mito-poesis
title_full Herinnering, geskiedenis, identiteit : 'n ondersoek na beeld en teks in mito-poesis
title_fullStr Herinnering, geskiedenis, identiteit : 'n ondersoek na beeld en teks in mito-poesis
title_full_unstemmed Herinnering, geskiedenis, identiteit : 'n ondersoek na beeld en teks in mito-poesis
title_short Herinnering, geskiedenis, identiteit : 'n ondersoek na beeld en teks in mito-poesis
title_sort herinnering geskiedenis identiteit n ondersoek na beeld en teks in mito poesis
topic Dissertations -- Art
Theses -- Art
Dissertations -- Visual arts
Theses -- Visual arts
Language and culture -- South Africa
Sociolinguistics -- South Africa
Art -- Philosophy
Metaphor -- Political aspects -- South Africa
Art -- Social aspects -- South Africa
Metafoor -- Sosiale aspekte
Kuns -- Filosofie
Kuns -- Sosiale aspekte
url http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/8546
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