Gender-ambivalensie : aspekte van beliggaming, performatiwiteit en ondermyning in Ek stamel ek sterwe van Eben Venter

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis the potential of Eben Venter's novel Ek stamel ek sterwe (1996) as asubversive text is investigated. The primary goal is to illustrate how Eben Venter depicts thestigmatisation of homosexuality, aids and death, but more specifically the death of ahomosexual individual who has aids, in society. The secondary goal is to investigate theways in which Venter depicts the impact that the heteronormative ideal has on homosexualindividuals by means of the regulation of norms. Judith Butler's theorisation of sex, gender,identity and performativity is used as a lens with which Ek stamel ek sterwe is read. Thefinding is that Ek stamel ek sterwe is a novel with subversive potential and the implicationsthat this has is discussed.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University