Presenting the prison : the South African prison autobiography under apartheid

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dc.contributor.authorRoux, Daniëlen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-06T11:06:32Z
dc.date.available2014-10-06T11:06:32Z
dc.date.issued2007en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 280-290).en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis thesis investigates a range of South African autobiographical accounts of imprisonment, most of them by political prisoners under apartheid. Its principal focus is on the ways in which the prison as physical and ideological space intersects with a conscious literary construction of identity. The argument is that in these accounts, the prison features as both object and subject: it appears as one of the objects of description, a referent among others in a structured succession of events, but in fact it also serves as the very frame that enables and structures the consciousness that speaks about - and from within - the prison. In other words, the prison is one of the important coercive instruments that governed the forms of consciousness, literary and otherwise, that emerged in South Africa under apartheid. A broader topic engaged by this discussion is therefore also the role played by materially based disciplinary structures in the emergence of autobiographical literary forms.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationRoux, D. (2007). <i>Presenting the prison : the South African prison autobiography under apartheid</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8099en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationRoux, Daniël. <i>"Presenting the prison : the South African prison autobiography under apartheid."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8099en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationRoux, D. 2007. Presenting the prison : the South African prison autobiography under apartheid. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Roux, Daniël AB - This thesis investigates a range of South African autobiographical accounts of imprisonment, most of them by political prisoners under apartheid. Its principal focus is on the ways in which the prison as physical and ideological space intersects with a conscious literary construction of identity. The argument is that in these accounts, the prison features as both object and subject: it appears as one of the objects of description, a referent among others in a structured succession of events, but in fact it also serves as the very frame that enables and structures the consciousness that speaks about - and from within - the prison. In other words, the prison is one of the important coercive instruments that governed the forms of consciousness, literary and otherwise, that emerged in South Africa under apartheid. A broader topic engaged by this discussion is therefore also the role played by materially based disciplinary structures in the emergence of autobiographical literary forms. DA - 2007 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2007 T1 - Presenting the prison : the South African prison autobiography under apartheid TI - Presenting the prison : the South African prison autobiography under apartheid UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8099 ER - en_ZA
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dc.identifier.vancouvercitationRoux D. Presenting the prison : the South African prison autobiography under apartheid. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature, 2007 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8099en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of English Language and Literatureen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherEnglish Language and Literatureen_ZA
dc.titlePresenting the prison : the South African prison autobiography under apartheiden_ZA
dc.typeDoctoral Thesis
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