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Farber, Leora
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Dreyer, Elfriede
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dc.date.accessioned |
2012-12-03T09:42:35Z |
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dc.date.available |
2012-12-03T09:42:35Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2012-11-13 |
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dc.description |
L.F. (University of Johannesburg) is the primary author, from
whose art exhibition and doctoral dissertation this article is
drawn. E.D. (University of Pretoria) was the primary author’s
doctoral supervisor on said dissertation. |
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dc.description |
This article is an output of
Leora Farber’s DPhil in Fine
Arts in the Department
of Visual Arts, University
of Pretoria, conducted
under the supervision of
Prof. Jeanne van Eeden
and Prof. Elfriede Dreyer.
The contents of the article
correlate with Chapter Four
of her doctoral dissertation.
This article was written
as part of, and functions
within the scope of a
larger research project
entitled Transgressions and
boundaries of the page: A
transdisciplinary exploration
of a practice-based research
project by means of the
artist’s book conducted by
the subject groups Graphic
Design, Creative Writing
and Art History at the
Potchefstroom Campus of
the North-West University,
South Africa. |
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dc.description.abstract |
This article explored the conception, historical context and theoretical underpinnings of Leora Farber's 2010 artwork entitled The Futility of Writing 24-Page Letters, which forms an extension of the work on her exhibition entitled Dis-Location/Re-Location. The Futility of Writing 24-Page Letters falls within Dis-Location/Re-Location's thematics, but focuses on one aspect thereof, namely, how fin-de-siècle Jewish colonial women who were immigrants to southern Africa, as exemplified in the persona of Bertha Marks (1862-1934), experienced nineteenth-century Victorian gender ideologies. Their life experiences often entailed resistance to their positions as subjects of a patriarchal social system; yet, as women, they were simultaneously complicit in upholding discriminatory colonial ideologies and in maintaining the racial, social and cultural prejudices and forms of subjugation that underpinned them. Bertha Marks is shown to have occupied a personalised heterotopia: whilst operating from within, and maintaining the racial and social prejudices of the colonial era, she was simultaneously constrained by her positioning within it. This heterotopic life experience is reflected in the diary extracts which comprise The Futility of Writing 24-Page Letters, which reveal that she occupied the conflicting positions of victim, witness, bystander, collaborator and beneficiary of colonial injustices and exploitation, and assumes varying degrees of co-responsibility and co-liability for her roles and actions. |
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dc.description.abstract |
Hierdie artikel ondersoek die konsepsie, historiese konteks en teoretiese raamwerk van Leora Farber se 2010 kunswerk The Futility of Writing 24-Page Letters wat 'n voortsetting is van haar uitstalling Dis-Location/Re-Location. The Futility of Writing 24-Page Letters val binne die tematiek van Dis-Location/Re-Location, maar beklemtoon één aspek van laasgenoemde, naamlik hoe fin-de-siècle Joodse koloniale immigrante vrouens in Suiderlike-Afrika - soos versinnebeeld in die persona van Bertha Marks (1862-1934) - negentiende-eeuse, Viktoriaanse genderideologieë ervaar het. Hierdie vrouens se lewenservarings het dikwels verset teenoor hul posisies as subjekte van 'n patriargale sosiale sisteem behels, tog, as vrouens, was hul tegelykertyd medepligtig aan die onderskraging van diskriminerende koloniale ideologieë, en aan die handhawing van die rasse, sosiale en kulturele vooroordele, asook vorms van onderdrukking, wat hierdie ideologieë ingelig het. Daar word geargumenteer dat Bertha Marks 'n verpersoonlikte heterotopia bewoon het; terwyl sy haar plek binne die struktuur van die rasse- en sosiale vooroordele van die koloniale tydperk ten volle ingeneem het, was sy terselfdertyd beperk deur haar posisionering binne dié raamwerk. Hierdie heterotopiese lewenservaring word weerspieël in die dagboekuittreksels waaruit The Futility of Writing 24-Page Letters bestaan. Daarin word haar teenstrydige posisies as slagoffer, getuie, bystander, meeloper en begunstigde van koloniale onreg en uitbuiting geopenbaar, en aanvaar sy in wisselende mate mede-verantwoordelikheid en mede-aanspreeklikheid vir haar rol en optrede. |
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dc.description.uri |
http://www.literator.org.za |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Farber, L. & Dreyer, E., 2012, ‘The diary of Bertha Marks as a heterotopia, as articulated in the artwork, The Futility of Writing 24-Page Letters’, Literator 33(1), Art. #29,11 pages. http://dx.DOI.org/10.4102/lit.v33i1.29. |
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dc.identifier.issn |
0258-2279 |
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dc.identifier.other |
10.4102/lit.v33i1.29 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2263/20627 |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
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dc.publisher |
AOSIS Open Journals |
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dc.rights |
© 2012. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS OpenJournals. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. |
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dc.subject |
The Futility of Writing 24-Page Letters |
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dc.subject |
Leora Farber’s 2010 artwork |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Marks, Bertha -- Diaries |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Jewish women -- Diaries -- South Africa |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Art, South African |
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dc.subject.other |
Heterotopia |
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dc.title |
The diary of Bertha Marks as a heterotopia, as articulated in the artwork, The Futility of Writing 24-Page Letters |
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dc.title.alternative |
Dagboek van Bertha Marks as 'n heterotopia, soos verwoord in die kunswerk, The Futility of Writing 24-Page Letters |
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dc.type |
Article |
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