Die Marxistiese literêre kritiek en ‘n plek vir Uitdraai, ’n Afrikaanse roman, en die Afrikaanse letterkunde in die bevrydingstryd
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20156181 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philip John (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 231-245 |
| Publication date | 1990-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Literary Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0256-4718 • E-ISSN: 1753-5387 |
| Publisher | Unisa Press (PUBLISHER • ZA) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02564719008529949 |
| OpenAlex | W2028273187 |
| Language | AF |
| References cited | 12 |
In this article an attempt is made to apply the Marxist approach to literary texts in a manner which is less rigid and prescriptive than is usual to an Afrikaans text, Uitdraai, by Wilma Stockenstrom. The analysis is based on the arguments of Tony Bennett and Fredric Jameson as respectively formulated in Formalism and Marxism and The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act ‐ that the political value of a literary text cannot only be read from the text but also depends on the labour applied to the texts by the critic. It is then argued that although a text such as Uitdraai exhibits certain “reactionary” features ‐ because it is necessarily imbedded in the present power relations ‐ it also contains features which point to a future in which these relations do not exist, and that the responsibility for the recognition and utilisation of these “progressive” features resides, in the first place, with the literary critic
Art · Epistemology · Literature · Marxist philosophy · Narrative · Politics · Reactionary · Unconscious mind · Law · Philosophy · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies · South African History and Culture
Aesthetics and Politics
Marxism and Literary Criticism
The state of analysis of the Southern African region
The Crisis in South Africa
English-language literature and politics in South Africa
The Political Unconscious
The Novels of Nadine Gordimer
The Crisis in South Africa
The Symbolic Inference; Or, Kenneth Burke and Ideological Analysis
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |