“Labyrinth of loneliness”: Breyten Breytenbach’s prison poetry (1976–1985)

Auteurs

  • Helize Van Vuuren Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.4314/tvl.v46i2.44413

Mots-clés :

South African prison poetry, depersonalisation, dissociation, dread / debility / dependency or DDD syndrome, solitary confinement, Breytenbach’s ars poetica

Résumé

Breytenbach’s prison poetry is first contextualized as part of a South African subgenre that flourished under apartheid, and then interrogated for its specificities: the singular prison conditions under which he wrote, the nature of the poetry, specific leitmotifs in each of the five volumes published between 1976 and 1985. A psychoanalytic approach is indicated to this strong middle phase in his extensive poetical oeuvre, comprising seventeen collections of poetry. 

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Biographie de l'auteur

  • Helize Van Vuuren, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

    Helize van Vuuren is Professor of Literature in the Department of Language and Literature at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth.

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Publiée

2009-09-01

Numéro

Vol. 46 No 2 (2009)

Rubrique

Research articles

Licence

(c) Copyright Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 2009

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Comment citer

Van Vuuren, H. (2009). “Labyrinth of loneliness”: Breyten Breytenbach’s prison poetry (1976–1985). Tydskrif Vir Letterkunde, 46(2), 43-56. https://doi.org/10.4314/tvl.v46i2.44413