Die problematiese afbakening tussen sommige kortverhaalbundels en die roman in Afrikaans, aan die hand van geselekteerde tekste

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT:Since the sixties many short story collections referred to as 'eenheidsbundels' ('unified volumes') have appeared in Afrikaans.Especially those collections published since the eighties and nineties prominentlydisplay anoverallunitysuggestiveofthegreaterunityfoundinthenovel.These collections are usually characterised by the recurring appearance of characters beyond the borders of the individual stories and the use of themes and recurring motifs that run through the collection.Sometimestheseparatestorieswithinacollectionsharethesametimeperiodorgeographical space.Thesamenarratormayalsoappearthroughoutthecollection.Althoughtheindividualstorieswithinavolume mayberegardedinisolation(orevenpublishedinisolation),theywill inevitably be deprived of possible interpretations that would otherwise have been evident in relation to the collection as a whole.As a result, it would seem that the boundary between the short story volume and the novel becomes blurred in these unified collections.Themainobjectiveofthisthesisistotrytodeterminewhethertheshortstorycollections under discussionrepresentanewgenreorsubgenreorwhether they couldpossiblyconstitutea continuation of an existing genre.The point of departure is the suggestion by J.P. Smuts (1989: 23) that thephenomenonislinkedtothewritersofthesixties'rebellionagainststereotypedliterary formsandthatthesecollectionsappeartorepresentanintermediateform,somethingthatlies between the traditional short story collection and the novel.Chapter 2 serves as the theoretical foundation of the research: the traditional characteristics of the shortstoryandnovelareinvestigated.Postmodernismasschoolofthoughtassociatedwiththe problematisation oftheboundariesbetween genresisalsoinvestigated.InChapters3and4 two unifiedcollectionsfromtheninetiesareanalysed:JacoBotha'sSweisbril (1999)andS.P. Benjamin's Die lewe is 'n halwe roman (1999).The purpose of these analyses is to determine the extent to which the extensive unityin these collections canbe compared to the unityfoundin the novel.The secondary goal of the thesisis to suggest (in response to Maritha Snyman's appeal (2011)) a moresuitableAfrikaansnameforthestudyobject('eenheidsbundel).NeilCochraneandNina Botes's proposed term 'kortverhaalsiklus ('short story cycle) (2011) is considered, but AndrP. Brink'sreferenceto''nsoortkortverhaal-roman('akindofshortstorynovel)finallytakes precedence.Theconclusionfindsthatthetypeofcollectionunderdiscussiondoesrepresentahybrid intermediary form located somewhere between the traditional short story collection and the novel, a form the development of which was probably influenced by postmodernism.The form seems to be a continuation of the tradition of the short story collection, one that has evolved towards the novel.CochraneandBotes'sterm'kortverhaalsiklusisrejectedin favouroftheproposedterm'kortverhaal-roman(withsomequalifications).Thistermcanco-existwith termssuchas 'hibridiese bundel ('hybrid volume) or the more vague 'eenheidsbundel.The observation that theterm'kortverhaalsiklusdoesnotconveythehybridqualityoftheform, andthefactthat SuzanneFerguson(2003)pointsoutthatnotallunifiedvolumesarenecessarilycycles, was decisive.

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