Narrating an unstable memory : a postmodern study of fictional pasts in the (auto/bio)graphic novel

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dc.contributor.advisorDe Villiers, Karlienen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorLe Roux, Marikeen_ZA
dc.contributor.otherStellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Visual Arts.en_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-09T14:10:19Zen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2013-03-15T07:27:09Z
dc.date.available2013-02-09T14:10:19Zen_ZA
dc.date.available2013-03-15T07:27:09Z
dc.date.issued2013-03en_ZA
dc.descriptionThesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractENGLISH ABSTRACT: To write a life story the auto/biographer must reflect upon the past that was once experienced. When presented with this task of depending on memory and narrative, the auto/biographer often finds himself/herself in the position of creating and imagining, rather than reflecting or presenting the past as it was lived. Fragmentation, forgetfulness, selection, (re)construction and imagination are often inextricably connected to Memory which results in the reliance on an unstable memory to access the past. This dissertation explores how postmodern auto/biographies, specifically the (auto/bio)graphic novel, acknowledges the difficulty of writing about the past when concerned with truth. The (auto/bio)graphic novel disrupts the notion of truth by blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction, resulting in a hybrid form where text and image, reality and imagination co-exist to create new, and often more significant pasts (that can serve the present).en_ZA
dc.description.abstractAFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Om ‘n lewensverhaal te skryf, reflekteer die outo/biograaf op dít wat eens geleef was in die verlede. Deur hierdie proses, wat ‘n afhanklikheid van die geheue behels, vind die outo/biograaf homself/haarself gereeld in ‘n situasie waar hy/sy ontwerp en verbeel, eerder as om die verlede weer te gee soos dit beleef was. Fragmentasie, vergeetagtigheid, selektering, (her)konstruering en verbeelding is soms onskeibaar van Geheue wat dui op die afhanklikheid van ‘n onstabiele geheue in die skryf- en illustreer-prosesse van ‘n outo/biografie. Hierdie verhandeling ondersoek hoe postmoderne outo/biografieë, spesifiek die (outo/bio)grafiese roman, bewus is van die kwessies rondom die skryf van die verlede in verhouding tot waarheid. Die (outo/bio)grafiese roman ontwrig die idee van waarheid deur die grense tussen feit en fiksie te ondermyn. Gevolglik onstaan ‘n hibriede vorm van outo/biografie waar teks en beeld, realiteit en verbeelding gekombineer word om nuwe en meer beduidende verledes te skep (wat so ook die hede op nuwe maniere kan dien).af_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipmlb2013
dc.format.extent143 p. : ill.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/79942
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherStellenbosch : Stellenbosch Universityen_ZA
dc.rights.holderStellenbosch University
dc.subjectMemory in arten_ZA
dc.subjectGraphic novelsen_ZA
dc.subjectAutobiographyen_ZA
dc.subjectNarrative arten_ZA
dc.subjectDissertations -- Visual artsen_ZA
dc.subjectTheses -- Visual artsen_ZA
dc.titleNarrating an unstable memory : a postmodern study of fictional pasts in the (auto/bio)graphic novelen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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