dc.contributor.advisor	Van Robbroeck, Lize	en_ZA
dc.contributor.advisor	Dietrich, Keith	en_ZA
dc.contributor.author	De Beer, Marlene	en_ZA
dc.contributor.other	Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Visual Arts.	en_ZA
dc.date.accessioned	2017-11-13T09:35:38Z
dc.date.accessioned	2017-12-11T10:32:40Z
dc.date.available	2018-05-13T03:00:05Z
dc.date.issued	2017-12
dc.description	Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2017.	en_ZA
dc.description.abstract	ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This doctoral project, which involves a thesis and a body of artworks, is a re-storying of the muted voices of three of my female ancestors: my mother, my grandmother and the Voortrekker woman Susanna Smit. I attempt to give voice, via a re-storying of their archives, to some of the more hidden aspects of their narratives. My objective is to draw attention to a ‘maternal debt’ that has been occluded by patriarchy, and to afford voices to the mute women who served as silent corporeal foils for men. I argue that sublimation, for women, occurs within prescriptive patriarchal cultural and social contexts, which invalidates the accusation that women might be consciously colluding in the maintenance of a phallocentric world order. The aim of this project is to reappraise historical interpretations and cultural ideological representations of these Afrikaner female subjects, and to demonstrate how these women’s seeming collusion with an oppressive and prescriptive patriarchy was largely due to internalisation of their own ascribed inferior positions as women in a male-dominated culture. From a phenomenological and embodied perspective, I explore the tension between objectified female subjects, in their attempt to achieve a form of agency and sublimation, and a patriarchal Western Symbolic. Three-dimensional artworks in porcelain and mixed media, and video (which includes poetry) form the principal method of re-storying my ancestors’ lived experiences. Through my artwork I attempt to create an awareness of the need for a feminine Imaginary and Divine.	en_ZA
dc.description.abstract	AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie doktorale projek, wat ‘n teoretiese tesis sowel as ‘n versameling van kunswerke insluit, is ‘n herbetragting van die stilswyende stemme van drie van my vroulike voorsate, naamlik, my ma, ouma en die Voortrekker vrou Susanna Smit. Met hierdie hervertelling van hulle argiefmateriaal poog ek om die meer verskuilde oogpunte van hulle vertelkuns te verwoord. Ek beoog om die ‘moederskuld’, weggelaat vanweë universele historiese patriargale vertolkings, te beklemtoon, asook om seggenskap te verleen aan die vroue, wat as stilswyende tasbare buit vir mans gedien het. Ek is van mening dat vergeesteling, vir vroue, plaasvind binne voorskriftelike patriagale kulturele en sosiale raamwerke, en dat die aantyging dat vroue waarskynlik bewustelik deelneem aan die instandhouding van ‘n fallies-gesentreerde wêrleldorde, onwaar is. Die doel van hierdie projek is om historiese vertolkings, sowel as kulturele ideologiese oogpunte, van Afrikaner vroulike seggenskap te herwerk. Daardeur beoog ek om te wys dat hierdie vroue se oënskeinlike geesdriftige deelname aan ‘n onderdrukkende patriargale raamwerk, hoofskeinlik te wyte is aan die internalisering van toegekende en minderwaardige rolle. Ek gebruik ‘n fenomenelogiese an vergestalte perspektief om die spanning tussen geobjektiveerde vroulike subjektiwiteit, wat deel vorm van hul poging om agentskap en sublimasie te verkry, en ‘n Westerse patriargale raamwerk te ondersoek. Die driedimensionele kunswerke wat uit porselein en gemengde media bestaan, sowel as die video (wat gedigte insluit), vorm die vernaamste metode om die geleefde ervaringe van my voorstate oor te vertel. Met my kunswerke poog ek om bewustheid te skep van die noodsaaklikheid vir ‘n vroulike Verbeelding en Spiritualiteit.	af_ZA
dc.description.sponsorship	National Research Foundation (NRF)	en_ZA
dc.embargo.terms	2018-05-13
dc.format.extent	281 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles	en_ZA
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/102618
dc.language.iso	en_ZA	en_ZA
dc.publisher	Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University	en_ZA
dc.rights.holder	Stellenbosch University	en_ZA
dc.subject	Smit, Susanna Catharina, 1799-1863 -- Criticism and interpretation	en_ZA
dc.subject	Afrikaners -- South Africa -- History	en_ZA
dc.subject	Afrikaner women in art	en_ZA
dc.subject	Afrikaner women -- Biography	en_ZA
dc.subject	Afrikaner female subjectivity	en_ZA
dc.subject	Smit, Susanna Catharina, 1799-1863 -- Diaries	en_ZA
dc.subject	Patriarchy -- South Africa	en_ZA
dc.subject	UCTD	en_ZA
dc.title	A visual and textual re-storying of the diary of Susanna Catharina Smit (1799-1863)	en_ZA
dc.type	Thesis	en_ZA

A visual and textual re-storying of the diary of Susanna Catharina Smit (1799-1863)

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