After birth : abjection and maternal subjectivity in Svea Josephy's "Confinement"

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dc.contributor.advisorVan Robbroeck, Lizeen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorSteyn, Christineen_ZA
dc.contributor.otherStellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Visual Arts.en_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2013-11-18T08:42:51Zen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2013-12-13T16:04:31Z
dc.date.available2013-11-18T08:42:51Zen_ZA
dc.date.available2013-12-13T16:04:31Z
dc.date.issued2013-12en_ZA
dc.descriptionThesis (MA)-- Stellenbosch University, 2013.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis I investigate the radical reframing of maternal representation in the photographic series by Cape Town-based artist Svea Josephy (b. 1969), entitled Confinement 2005-ongoing. Using Julia Kristeva’s theorisation of the maternal body’s relation to abjection, as well as its imperative to the remodelling of the relationship between the corporeal and the cultural, I explore how Josephy’s images explicitly engage with the Kristevan abject in order to disrupt cultural inscriptions of maternity and ‘motherhood’. I contend that Confinement situates Josephy’s experience of ‘becoming-mother’ against the dominant discourses of maternity and birth, and thereby uses the maternal subject as a means to interrogate broader issues of gender and identity.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractAFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In hierdie tesis ondersoek ek die radikale herberaming van die moederfiguur in Confinement (2005 tot op hede) – ‘n fotoreeks van die Kaapse kunstenaar Svea Josephy (geb. 1969). Julia Kristeva se teorieë oor die moederlike liggaam, en in besonder die moederliggaam se verhouding tot abjeksie, word aangewend om die verband tussen die liggaamlike en die kulturele te herbedink. Ek ondersoek hoe hierdie fotoreeks Kristeva se konsep van die abjekte benut, ten einde kulturele voorskriftelikheid oor moederskap en 'ma-wees' te ontwrig. Ek argumenteer dat Confinement Josephy se ondervinding van 'wordend-moederskap’ die dominante diskoerse van moederskap en geboorte uitdaag, en sodoende die moederlike subjek gebruik om breër aspekte rondom geslag en identiteit te bevraagteken.af_ZA
dc.format.extent160 p. : ill.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/85724
dc.language.isoen_ZA
dc.publisherStellenbosch : Stellenbosch Universityen_ZA
dc.rights.holderStellenbosch University
dc.subjectAbjection in arten_ZA
dc.subjectEmbodied subjectivityen_ZA
dc.subjectPhotography -- History and criticismen_ZA
dc.subjectJosephy, Svea Valeska -- Critisicm and interpretationen_ZA
dc.subjectDissertations -- Visual artsen_ZA
dc.subjectTheses -- Visual artsen_ZA
dc.titleAfter birth : abjection and maternal subjectivity in Svea Josephy's "Confinement"en_ZA
dc.typeThesis
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