Browsing by Author "Jordaan, Margarethé Maria"
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- ItemDie representasie van slaafskap in 'Die kremetartekspedisie' deur Wilma Stockenström : die voorstelling van die onvoorstelbare(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000-12) Jordaan, Margarethé Maria; Huigen, Siegfried; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences. Dept. of Afrikaans & Dutch.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this study the role played by literature or fiction in historiography is investigated. Firstly, the problem of representing an "objective reality" is outlined, and subsequently applied to the domain of historiography by questioning terms such as "objectivity", "reality" and "truth". Due attention is given to changing perceptions about the nature of history writing. It is indicated that historiography cannot render or recreate the past as something which is present here-and-now and, therefore, that history writing is of necessity always an interpreted and subjectively construed representation of an ephemeral "reality". Against this background the thesis focuses on that part of South African history (slavery) which for a variety of reasons lacks a formalised historiography. It is indicated how the "gaps" created by the failures of formalised historiography can be "filled" by the suggestive power of the literary imagination. Wilma Stockenstrëm's Die kremetartekspedisie (1981) is used to exemplify the above claims by specifically noting how the personal slave experience is described through the literary imagination in Die kremetartekspedisie.