“Ek is besig om iemand heeltemal anders te word ...”: die ontginning van liminaliteit in Vaselinetjie deur Anoeschka von Meck

dc.contributor.authorVan Zyl, Dorotheaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-03-26T12:33:40Z
dc.date.available2015-03-26T12:33:40Z
dc.date.issued2006-04
dc.descriptionCITATION: Van Zyl, D. 2006. 'Ek is besig om iemand heeltemal anders te word ...': die ontginning van liminaliteit in Vaselinetjie deur Anoeschka von Meck. Literator, 39-56, doi: 10.4102/lit.v27i1.178.af_ZA
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at http://literator.org.zaen_ZA
dc.description.abstractThe concepts of liminality, transition and borders are utilised extensively in “Vaselinetjie” by Anoeschka von Meck (2004). This is especially the case regarding her use of characterisation, focalisation, time and space (including place and landscape) in the construction of identity. As a liminal character, Vaseline finds herself in different kinds of liminal spaces on a regular basis, like the children’s home, which is foregrounded in the novel, as well as in consecutive preliminal, liminal and postliminal phases. The children’s home is an essentially liminal space, but from the perspective of Vaseline it is firstly gradually transformed into a place to which meaning is attached, and secondly to a landscape of belonging, as she expresses her solidarity with the scorned group of children in the home. On the one hand the children’s home is characterised by a certain liminal essence, but on the other hand it can be regarded as “a realm of pure possibility” (Turner, 1967:97).en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.literator.org.za/index.php/literator/article/view/178
dc.description.versionPublisher's versionen_ZA
dc.format.extent18 pagesen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationVan Zyl, D. 2006. 'Ek is besig om iemand heeltemal anders te word ...': die ontginning van liminaliteit in Vaselinetjie deur Anoeschka von Meck. Literator, 39-56, doi: 10.4102/lit.v27i1.178af_ZA
dc.identifier.issn2219-8237 (online)
dc.identifier.issn0258-2279 (print)
dc.identifier.otherdoi: 10.4102/lit.v27i1.178
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/96424
dc.language.isoaf_ZAaf_ZA
dc.publisherAOSIS Publishingen_ZA
dc.rights.holderAuthors retain copyrighten_ZA
dc.subjectVon Meck, Anoeschka. Vaselinetjie -- Criticism and interpretationen_ZA
dc.subjectLiminality in literatureen_ZA
dc.subjectConstruction of identity in literatureen_ZA
dc.title“Ek is besig om iemand heeltemal anders te word ...”: die ontginning van liminaliteit in Vaselinetjie deur Anoeschka von Meckaf_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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