Om die retor in postkoloniale Afrika-fiksie te lees: Armah se Two thousand seasons ter illustrasie
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Title | Om die retor in postkoloniale Afrika-fiksie te lees: Armah se Two thousand seasons ter illustrasie Reading the rhetor in postcolonial African fiction: Armah’s Two thousand seasons as an illustration | |
Creator | Samiselo, George | |
Description | Retors word binne postkoloniale Afrika-fiksie toenemend as ’n variant van die ekstra-diëgetiese verteller in die narratologie erken. Een voorbeeld hiervan is die gemeenskaplike stem. As middelpunt van die sosiale, geskiedkundige en politieke bewussyn, hou retors verskillende voordele in vir die skrywer. Ten spyte van retors se sterk aanwesigheid in postkoloniale Afrika-prosa, het kritici tot dusver min oor hierdie fassinerende narratiewe agent geskryf, oënskynlik omdat die ‘kanon’ van die Afrika-letterkunde, wat Lindfors beskryf het as die ‘long drums and canons’, die meeste aandag gekry het. Dit is wel bemoedigend dat ‘n ommeswaai aan die einde van die twintigste eeu plaasgevind het en dat kritici nou wel narratologiese kriteria op postkoloniale Afrika-fiksie begin toepas. Hierdie artikel teoretiseer die aanwending van die retor in Two thousand seasons deur aan te voer dat die retor ‘n bevoorregte posisie inneem danksy die ideologiese invloed wat hy uitoefen en die gesag van sy gesigspunt. Die artikel wil ’n bydrae lewer tot die bestudering van die narratologie in die Afrika-roman deur die aandag te vestig op die belangrikheid van die retoriese strategieë van die retor as agent in postkoloniale Afrika-fiksie. Hierdie artikel onderskryf dus ’n kritiese diskoers oor Afrika-tekste wat – in die woorde van Culler– ’n poëtika, die studie van die voorwaardes vir betekenis in postkoloniale Afrika-fiksie, uitmaak. For some time now, rhetors have steadily gained a firm hold on postcolonial African fiction in various versions of what narratologists designate as extradiegetic narrators. One such guise is the communal voice because of the rhetorical advantages these rhetors enjoy as the centre of social, historical, and political consciousness. Yet, in spite of the rhetors’ pervasiveness in postcolonial African prose, little has been said in African critical practice about these fascinating narrative agents since most of the emphasis has been on canonical African texts – what Lindfors designates as the ‘long drums and canons’. Happily, the end of the twentieth century saw a shift in the concerns of African criticism, bringing narratological criteria to bear on postcolonial African fiction. This article theorises the deployment of the rhetor in Two thousand seasons, arguing that the rhetor is privileged because of the ideological force he assumes and his authoritative point of view. It is intended as a contribution to the study of narratology in the African novel, revealing the significance of the rhetorical strategies that guarantee the future of the rhetor as an agency in postcolonial African fiction. For these reasons, this discussion supports a critical discourse of African texts that is, in Culler’s words,‘a poetics, a study of the conditions of meaning’ in postcolonial African fiction. | |
Publisher | AOSIS | |
Date | 2013-09-06 | |
Identifier | 10.4102/lit.v34i1.430 | |
Source | Literator; Vol 34, No 1 (2013); 9 pages Literator; Vol 34, No 1 (2013); 9 pages 2219-8237 0258-2279 | |
Language | eng | |
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