{"title":"Die teks as ’n etiese aanspraak","authors":"W. Burger","doi":"10.17159/tl.v59i3.14319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17159/tl.v59i3.14319","url":null,"abstract":"1. ’n Voormalige kollega van Hein Willemse en my in die Departement Afrikaans by UP, Annette Jordaan, wou eendag baie ernstig by Hein weet wat van die “liefhebbende leser” word in hierdie tyd waarin benaderings wat spruit uit die Kritiese Teorie oorheersend aan universiteite geword het. Hein het lekker gelag daaroor, soos hy ook op ’n keer halfspottend gereageer het op my opmerking in die teekamer, dat ek ’n bepaalde boek “mooi” gevind het. Om boeke vir die lekker te lees, vir die liefde van lees, kan studente op hul eie gaan doen, of mense kan in leeskringe met mekaar daaroor gesels, was min of meer Hein se mening. Aan die universiteit bedryf ons nie ’n liefhebbery nie, het hy verduidelik, ons lees nie vir die lekker nie, ons is besig met die akademiese ondersoek van literatuur. Die akademiese ondersoek van literatuur behels vir Hein veral die kritiese ondersoek van die magsverhoudings wat in literatuur en die bestudering van literatuur waargeneem kan word. Literêre werke moet in konteks gelees word; in die konteks van die omstandighede wat hulle verskyning moontlik maak, wat hulle resepsie bepaal en wat aan hulle spesifieke posisies in die literatuurgeskiedenis besorg. Willemse lees literêre tekste immers op die spoor van Fredric Jameson op “simptomatiese” manier. Simptomatiese lesings, volgens Jameson, behels ’n vooronderstelling dat tekste mistifiseer of onderdruk en is daarom op soek na ’n verborge betekenis agter die voor-diehand-liggende betekenis: “Interpretation proper [...] always presupposes [...] at least some mechanism of mystification or repression in terms of which it would make sense to seek a latent meaning behind a manifest one and rewrite the surface categories of a text in the stronger language of a more fundamental interpretative code” (45). Die doel van só benadering is om die “politieke onbewuste” van die teks bloot te lê. In hierdie opsig is Willemse dus ’n volgeling van die “meesters van agterdog”, Freud en Marx, wat hulle bemoei met die simptome, die oppervlak, die oënskynlike, met die doel om soos ’n goeie speurder raak te sien wat hieragter lê.1 Hierdie kritiese benadering verg ’n individu wat literêreen kulturele tekste (kunswerke, populêre kultuur, akademiese navorsing, kulturele gebeurtenisse, verskillende sosiale praktyke) agterdogtig benader en sistematies aandui hoedat daar ’n kontras bestaan tussen wat hierdie verskynsels (wetend of onwetend)","PeriodicalId":41787,"journal":{"name":"Tydskrif vir letterkunde","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46586707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hein Willemse: Select bibliography","authors":"Jacomien Van Niekerk","doi":"10.17159/tl.v59i3.14348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17159/tl.v59i3.14348","url":null,"abstract":"Edited books Smith, Julian F., Alwyn van Gensen & Hein Willemse (eds). Swart Afrikaanse Skrywers. Verslag van ’n simposium gehou by die Universiteit van Wes-Kaapland, Bellville op 26-27 April 1985. U Western Cape, 1986. Willemse, Hein (ed.) More than Brothers: Peter Clarke & James Matthews at 70. Kwela, 2000. _____. Hostel. Autobiographical Narratives of the 1975–1980 University of the Western Cape Student Generation. abrile doman, 2018. Willemse, Hein, Marion Hattingh, Steward van Wyk & Pieter Conradie (eds). Die reis na Paternoster. ’n Verslag van die tweede swart Afrikaanse skrywersimposium gehou op Paternoster vanaf 29 September tot 1 Oktober 1995. U Western Cape, 1997. Willemse, Hein & Steward van Wyk (eds). ’n Vlag aan die tong: Gedenkbundel van die derde Swart Afrikaanse skrywerssimposium. abrile doman & Hond, 2015.","PeriodicalId":41787,"journal":{"name":"Tydskrif vir letterkunde","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46588058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coming to Afrikaans","authors":"Mark Sanders","doi":"10.17159/tl.v59i2.14704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17159/tl.v59i2.14704","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41787,"journal":{"name":"Tydskrif vir letterkunde","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41992922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Language, education, and transformation in Bianca Marais’s Hum If You Don’t Know the Words","authors":"G. Fincham","doi":"10.17159/tl.v59i2.10942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17159/tl.v59i2.10942","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I analyse Bianca Marais’s debut novel Hum If You Don’t Know the Words (2017). I consider first its relation to the historical events of the Soweto Uprising of 1976, and then examine its methods of composition. The issue precipitating the Soweto Uprising, when hundreds of black schoolchildren were gunned down by the police, was the refusal of blacks in Soweto to be taught in Afrikaans rather than in their home languages. Their revolt was both tragic and triumphant: tragic because of the sacrifice of young lives, triumphant because it marked Sowetans’ new power to insist on their ownership of language. In the spirit of this linguistic autonomy, Marais celebrates the power of language to create intercultural and intergenerational encounters, scripting dialogue which marries social diversity with linguistic elasticity. In this marriage her writing is strongly consonant with the work of the Russian linguist and philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin, whose text Art and Answerability examines the ethics of writing and helps the reader to piece together the agency of the implied author. Searching for the perspectives of the implied author reveals Marais’s political activism as well as her mastery of dialogue. Her novel belongs to the tradition created by writers in the 1970s and 1980s—when apartheid was in full force—to anticipate a post-apartheid world. Marais’s novel illustrates a political, cultural, and linguistic reinvention through its manipulation of narrative.","PeriodicalId":41787,"journal":{"name":"Tydskrif vir letterkunde","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49358853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"’n Onderhoud met Kirby van der Merwe oor Eugene","authors":"Kirby Van der Merwe, H. Willemse","doi":"10.17159/tl.v59i2.14271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17159/tl.v59i2.14271","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41787,"journal":{"name":"Tydskrif vir letterkunde","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49636038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"kosmos en komete (kaalwoorde/Ané Kotzé)","authors":"Ilze du Plessis","doi":"10.17159/tl.v59i1.13473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17159/tl.v59i1.13473","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41787,"journal":{"name":"Tydskrif vir letterkunde","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48057936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stories of Fathers, Stories of the Nation: Fatherhood and Paternal Power in South African Literature (Grant Andrews)","authors":"Delia Rabie","doi":"10.17159/tl.v59i1.12721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17159/tl.v59i1.12721","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41787,"journal":{"name":"Tydskrif vir letterkunde","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42280037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Pride of Noonlay (Shanice Ndlovu)","authors":"Mbali Sebokedi","doi":"10.17159/tl.v59i1.12704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17159/tl.v59i1.12704","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41787,"journal":{"name":"Tydskrif vir letterkunde","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44046459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}