The verbal and visual mirrors of postcolonial identity in Breyten Breytenbach's all one horse

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20156815
AutoresNancy Pedri (0000-0002-1855-4381, a postdoctoral fellow, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), University of Amsterdam, autor correspondente)
Ano2002
Volume18
Fascículo3-4
Páginas295-312
Data de publicação2002-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Literary Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0256-4718 • E-ISSN: 1753-5387
EditoraUnisa Press (PUBLISHER • ZA)
DOI10.1080/02564710208530307
OpenAlexW2063560679
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas11

This paper explores Breyten Breytenbach's repeated reference to mirrors and mirror images in both his verbal and visual texts and asks how they are engaged by the author to tease out the complexities informing the formation and representation of personal identity. It argues that Breytenbach postulates the mirror as a model space where personal identity is at once instated and contested through the inevitable interplay between the real subject and its reflected other. An analysis of some of the portraits reproduced in All One Horse: Fictions and Images (1990) serves to illustrate concretely how the mirror is incorporated into Breytenbach's texts to evoke in his readers a sense of the paradoxes informing personal identity

Aesthetics · Art · Linguistics · Personal identity · Politics · Portrait · Psychoanalysis · Self · Sociology · Visual arts · Computer Science · Law · Lexicography and Language Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · South African History and Culture · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism