Postmodernisme en poesie, met spesifieke verwysing na die historiografiese metagedig 'Die heengaanrefrein' van Wilma Stockenstrom

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT:The main aim of this study is to investigate the possibility of using a postmodern reading strategyfor Afrikaans poetry, in particular that type of poetry which, following Linda Hutcheon, I will callhistoriographic metapoetry. The investigation consists of four phases. Firstly, in order toimplement Hutcheon's model, cognisance will be taken of the theory of postmodernism (chapters 1-3), particularly with regard to poetry, since the latter is apparently a marginalised genre in thistheorisation. The second phase of the investigation encompasses a discussion of the discourse on postmodernism and poetry in America, the NetherlandsIFlanders and in Afrikaans (chapters 4-6,respectively). Attention is given to matters such as the developmental history of postmodernism,theorising on postmodern poetry and the practice of anthologising. The third phase bridges the gapbetween research on postmodernism and that on historiographic metapoetry (chapter 7). The focuswill be on Pirow Bekker's poem Apollo Smintheus, with specific attention being given to therepresentation of the event (the journey of Jonas de la Guerre into the hinterland in 1664) in thejournal texts and other historiographic sources. Hutcheon's distinction between event and fact willalso be adopted in the analysis.The last phase of this study is an application of Hutcheon's model to Wilma Stockenstrëm's poem,Die heengaanrefrein, a self-reflexive text on the arrival of the Huguenots in South Africa in 1688(chapters 8-12). As an introduction to the discussion of the text, the problematising of varioustypes of borders in the poem is examined. This is followed by an analysis of extracts from Dieheengaanrefrein with reference to four matters that are, according to Hutcheon, central to postmoderntheory and practice. These are: intertextuality, parody and the discourses of history; theproblem of reference; the subject and the representation of subjectivity; and lastly ideologicalimplications and political double-coding. The discussion of Die heengaanrefrein is supplementedwith shorter discussions of other texts, for example, George H. Weideman's Kieselguhr-kleim,two short poems from Breyten Breytenbach's Soos die so and P.J. Philander's poems Die klippepraat and Genesis. In Chapter 13, the final chapter, the findings are summarised and Hutcheon'smodel is evaluated.

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