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Burger, Willie
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dc.date.accessioned |
2015-08-03T05:56:36Z |
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dc.date.available |
2015-08-03T05:56:36Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2014 |
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dc.description.abstract |
Karel Schoeman’s novel, Die uur van die engel (The hour of the angel) (1995), seems
to invite a deconstructive reading as the impossibility to represent an event (understood in
Derridean terms as unpredictable and singular) in language is repeatedly demonstrated in
this novel (and also in many of his later novels). It is pointed out that although this kind of
Derridean reading of the novel makes sense, a careful reading also indicates that Schoeman
attempts to reach beyond the aporia. Drawing on Badiou’s thought on the event and on
Gumbrecht’s emphasis on “the production of presence”, I indicate how reading Schoeman’s
novel (in contrast to reading his historical works) becomes an event in itself. The article opens
up a “third way”, beyond the dominant paradigms of Deconstruction and Cultural studies,
namely to read literature as an event. |
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dc.description.librarian |
am2015 |
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dc.description.uri |
http://www.savn.org.za/index.php/tydskrif-vir-nederlands-en-afrikaans |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Burger, W 2014, '“[T]og het iets gebeur […] iets wat die jare en die afstand en die aarselende, ontoereikende woorde oorlewe het”. Die gebeurtenis en die getuie in Karel Schoeman se Die uur van die engel', Tydskrif vir Nederlands en Afrikaans, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 8-30. |
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dc.identifier.issn |
1022-6966 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2263/49220 |
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dc.language.iso |
Afrikaans |
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dc.publisher |
Suider-Afrikaanse Vereniging vir Neerlandistiek |
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dc.rights |
Suider-Afrikaanse Vereniging vir Neerlandistiek |
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dc.subject |
Gebeurtenis |
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dc.subject |
Getuie |
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dc.subject |
Karel Schoeman |
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dc.subject |
Event |
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dc.subject |
Witness |
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dc.subject |
Die uur van die engel (1995) |
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dc.title |
“[T]og het iets gebeur […] iets wat die jare en die afstand en die aarselende, ontoereikende woorde oorlewe het”. Die gebeurtenis en die getuie in Karel Schoeman se Die uur van die engel |
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dc.title.alternative |
“And yet something happend [...] something that survived the years and the distance and the tentative, inadequate words”. Event and Witness in Karel Schoeman’s die uur van die engel (the hour of the angel) |
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dc.title.alternative |
“And yet something happend [...] something that survived the years and the distance and the tentative, inadequate words”. Event and witness in Karel Schoeman’s Die uur van die engel (the hour of the angel) |
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dc.type |
Article |
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