History and power : a investigation of identity and re-presentation

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This investigation acts on the assumption that Knowledge is a means by whichreality is represented to us through power relations. As a represented reality,Knowledge on its part reconstructs an exclusive reality which pertains solely to theinterests of those in power. Knowledge therefore comprises a fixed meaning -constituted from words and images (or texts) represented with a disregard for theirrelevant con [text]s. Yet my work - as a re-presentation of the past - confronts the[Hi]story represented by the Apartheid Regime and a reading/viewing of my booksre-w[rite]s this slanted Narrative. By means of juxtaposition or through re-presentingtexts in con[text]s different from those with which they are traditionally associated, areading/viewing of my work creates relationships of inter-dependence. Through thereciprocal movement inevitably coinciding with such a reading/viewing, a process ofredemption takes place as the reader is dis-placed and meaning shifted from onelevel to an[other].

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University