๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ Equals ๐๐ฐ๐ต-๐: avowal, disavowal, and second- person narration in Marlene van Niekerkโs ๐ข๐จ๐ข๐ข๐ต
| dc.contributor.author | de Villiers, Rick | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-08-16T14:15:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-08-16T14:15:24Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This article examines the second-person narrative mode in Marlene van Niekerkโs Agaat. Its function is explained by situating the novel within that niche known as the โyou-text.โ But the generic function must also be accounted for within the thematic tensions of the novel, specifically those oscillations of avowal and disavowal. So a second concern is this: how does the novel speak back to narrative theory? How does its โcompulsion to tell the truthโ โ shadowed by South Africaโs Truth and Reconciliation Commission โ trouble, expand or extend the typologies used to talk about texts where โyouโ consolidates narrator and narratee? Considering this consolidation as part of what might be called a narratology of the self, I suggest that Agaatโs โyouโ can be seen as further collapsing the roles of confessor and penitent. Such collapse reinforces the interiority of Millaโs self-addressed excoriations, since it mirrors the doubled consciousness of Protestant confession. But it also inaugurates a new type of address โ the โimplied youโ โ which turns on the reader as much as on the novelโs protagonist. | |
| dc.description.version | Publisher's version | |
| dc.identifier.citation | de Villiers, R. (2023). You Equals Not-I: Avowal, Disavowal, and Second-Person Narration in Marlene van Niekerkโs Agaat. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, (2024): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2023.2270418 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0011-1619 (print) | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1939-9138 (online) | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2023.2270418 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11660/12742 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Taylor and Francis Group | |
| dc.rights.holder | Author(s) | |
| dc.rights.license | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
| dc.title | ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ Equals ๐๐ฐ๐ต-๐: avowal, disavowal, and second- person narration in Marlene van Niekerkโs ๐ข๐จ๐ข๐ข๐ต | |
| dc.type | Article |
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