Visagie, Andries2012-09-192012-09-191997Visagie, A 1997, 'Postmodernisme, subjektiwiteit en geskiedenis : Louis Ferron se Turkenvespers as ’n historiese collage', Tydskrif vir Nederlands en Afrikaans, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 77-100.1022-6966http://hdl.handle.net/2263/19824Article digitised using: Suprascan 1000 RGB scanner, scanned at 400 dpi; 24-bit colour; 100% Image derivating - Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS3 - Image levels, crop, deskew Abbyy Fine Reader No.9 - Image manipulation + OCR Adobe Acrobat 9 (PDF)This article was written by Prof. Andries Visagie before he joined the University of PretoriaThe postmodernist element (among other things) in Louis Ferron's novel, Turkenvespers (1977) becomes apparent in Ferron's playful irreverence for historical fact and chronology. History functions as a problematizing aspect in the efforts of the character Kaspar Hauser to attain coherent subjectivity. Kaspar unsuccessfully reverts to borrowed identities from both the historical and the literary past to constitute himself as an autonomous subject. This article examines the concomitance of history and subjectivity as represented in Turkenvespers. Furthermore, the various visions of history accommodated by Ferron's novel are explored and subsequently collated with postmodernist conceptions of history.24 pagesPDFAfrikaansSuid-Afrikaanse Vereniging vir NeerlandistiekPostmodernismePost-modernismNederlandse literatuurDutch literatureSubjektiwiteitSubjectivityGeskiedenisHistoriographical fictionArticle