Die “ek” in (‘YK’): Die desentralisasie van die subjek in Breyten Breytenbach se digbundel (‘YK’)

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  • Lisbé Smuts University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.46i2.3420

Keywords:

Afrikaans poetry, Breyten Breytenbach, decentralisation, the “I” narrator, the reader

Abstract

In Breyten Breytenbach’s poetry the “I” is complex. “I” and “you”, the writer and the reader, are not represented with constituted meanings but as signifiers and as part of language production. This article reflects on the development process of the writer as the textual “I”, the “I” narrator in the poetic text – the “I” of language that is not homogeneous or constant. The text is regarded as a pluriform in dialogue (often incomplete) with a variety of texts, the writer and his text, the texts of the reader and the texts of society and history. The author discusses the decentralisation of the subject in Breytenbach’s poetry with respect to his prison collection (‘YK’), and especially the poem “nekra” (a neologism recalling “necro”).

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Author Biography

Lisbé Smuts, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Lisbé Smuts was verbonde aan die Skool vir Taal en Literatuur aan die Universiteit van Kaapstad.

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Published

2009-09-01

How to Cite

Smuts, L. (2009). Die “ek” in (‘YK’): Die desentralisasie van die subjek in Breyten Breytenbach se digbundel (‘YK’). Tydskrif Vir Letterkunde, 46(2), 81–96. https://doi.org/10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.46i2.3420

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Research articles