Whose story is it anyway? The ethics of narration and the narration of ethics in Summertime and Die Sneeuslaper

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dc.contributor.authorHoltzhausen, Janitaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-03T18:10:22Z
dc.date.available2015-01-03T18:10:22Z
dc.date.issued2013en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation analyses and compares the narrative strategies in J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime and Marlene van Niekerk’s Die sneeuslaper and considers the implications of these strategies for the authors’ exploration of the ethics of writing. Much has been written about the literary oeuvres of both Coetzee and Van Niekerk, including studies of the translations of Van Niekerk’s Afrikaans novels into English. There are few “interlingual” comparative studies of contemporary works in Afrikaans and English, however, and certainly none to my knowledge which compares the work of Coetzee and Van Niekerk. My contribution to the conversation about Coetzee’s and Van Niekerk’s work, but also to an increasingly multilingual and interconnected South African literary criticism, will be a comparison of one recent work by each of these two authors, written in English and Afrikaans respectively. I draw on the theories of Bakhtin, Barthes and Levinas to consider the ethical dimension of texts in which “double-voicedness”, a questioning not only of existence, but of the self is fore grounded in the content and narrative structure; where there is a shift in focus from the author to the reader (“the birth of the reader”) and “utterances” are made with the response of “the other” in mind.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationHoltzhausen, J. (2013). <i>Whose story is it anyway? The ethics of narration and the narration of ethics in Summertime and Die Sneeuslaper</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11159en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationHoltzhausen, Janita. <i>"Whose story is it anyway? The ethics of narration and the narration of ethics in Summertime and Die Sneeuslaper."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11159en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationHoltzhausen, J. 2013. Whose story is it anyway? The ethics of narration and the narration of ethics in Summertime and Die Sneeuslaper. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Holtzhausen, Janita AB - This dissertation analyses and compares the narrative strategies in J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime and Marlene van Niekerk’s Die sneeuslaper and considers the implications of these strategies for the authors’ exploration of the ethics of writing. Much has been written about the literary oeuvres of both Coetzee and Van Niekerk, including studies of the translations of Van Niekerk’s Afrikaans novels into English. There are few “interlingual” comparative studies of contemporary works in Afrikaans and English, however, and certainly none to my knowledge which compares the work of Coetzee and Van Niekerk. My contribution to the conversation about Coetzee’s and Van Niekerk’s work, but also to an increasingly multilingual and interconnected South African literary criticism, will be a comparison of one recent work by each of these two authors, written in English and Afrikaans respectively. I draw on the theories of Bakhtin, Barthes and Levinas to consider the ethical dimension of texts in which “double-voicedness”, a questioning not only of existence, but of the self is fore grounded in the content and narrative structure; where there is a shift in focus from the author to the reader (“the birth of the reader”) and “utterances” are made with the response of “the other” in mind. DA - 2013 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2013 T1 - Whose story is it anyway? The ethics of narration and the narration of ethics in Summertime and Die Sneeuslaper TI - Whose story is it anyway? The ethics of narration and the narration of ethics in Summertime and Die Sneeuslaper UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11159 ER - en_ZA
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dc.identifier.vancouvercitationHoltzhausen J. Whose story is it anyway? The ethics of narration and the narration of ethics in Summertime and Die Sneeuslaper. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature, 2013 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11159en_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 in Literature and Modernityen_ZA
dc.titleWhose story is it anyway? The ethics of narration and the narration of ethics in Summertime and Die Sneeuslaperen_ZA
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