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n Literator : Journal of Literary Criticism, Comparative Linguistics and Literary Studies - Subverting the pastoral : the transcendence of space and place in J.M. Coetzee&apos;s Disgrace : research article
Author Marita Wenzel and Susan Smit-Marais
Source : Literator : Journal of Literary Criticism, Comparative Linguistics and Literary Studies, Volume 27, Issue 1, Apr 2006, p. 23 - 38
Keyword(s) : "Farm": new connotations, "Plaas": nuwe konnotasies, Coetzee, J.M. - Disgrace (1999), Disgrace as anti-pastoral farm novel, Disgrace as antipastorale plaasroman, Farm novel tradition: ideological underpinnings, Pastoral prototype, Pastorale prototipe, Plaasromantradisie: ideologiese onderstutting, Place and space: the inverting and parodying of and Plek en ruimte: die omkering en parodiering van
Die ondermyning van die pastorale tradisie : die transende-ring van ruimte en plek in J.M. Coetzee se Disgrace
Hierdie artikel ondersoek die wyse waarop "Disgrace" (1999) van J.M. Coetzee - as uitbeelding van &apos;n postkoloniale en post-moderne fiksionele gebeurtenis - die visie van die pastorale plaasromantradisie vergestalt, problematiseer en ondermyn deur die tradisionele konfigurasies van ruimte en plek te transendeer. Die roman bied &apos;n taamlike pessimistiese apokaliptiese visie van geslagsrolle, rasseverhoudings asook gesinsbande in postapartheid-Suid-Afrika en vergestalt die sosio-politiese spanning wat kenmerkend is van die Suid-Afrikaanse toneel in terme van persoonlike verhoudings. "Disgrace" herskryf die plaasromantradisie en put uit dié tradisie se angs oor die regmatigheid van (wit) eienaarskap - maar binne die konteks van postapartheid. "Disgrace" betwis dus die pastorale plaasroman se "droomtopografie" van die familieplaas wat regeer word deur die patriarg - &apos;n droomtopografie wat gehandhaaf word met behulp van die arbeid van onsigbare swart hande en &apos;n nalatenskap van mag en eienaarskap wat tot in lengte van dae sal duur (Coetzee, 1988:6). As sodanig word die konsep "plaas" uitgebeeld as &apos;n teenstrydige ruimte wat onderskryf word deur &apos;n geskiedenis van geweld en onteiening - &apos;n distopia. Hierdie artikel konseptualiseer "Disgrace" dus as &apos;n antipastorale plaasroman wat die konsep "plaas" - binne die konteks van die Suid-Afrikaanse werklikheid - deur die strukture van ruimte en plek wat die pastorale plaasroman herkonfigureer, te ondermyn, om te keer en te parodieer.
This article investigates how J.M. Coetzee&apos;s "Disgrace" (1999) - portrayed as a postcolonial and postmodern fictional event - embodies, problematises and subverts the vision of the pastoral farm novel tradition by transcending traditional configurations of space and place. The novel offers a rather bleak apocalyptic vision of gender roles, racial relationships and family relations in post-apartheid South Africa and expresses the socio-political tensions pertaining to the South African landscape in terms of personal relationships. As a fictional reworking of the farm novel, "Disgrace" draws on the tradition&apos;s anxieties about the rights of (white) ownership, but within a post-apartheid context. As such, "Disgrace" challenges the pastoral farm novel&apos;s "dream topo-graphy" (Coetzee, 1988:6) of the family farm ruled by the patriarch - a topography inscribed - with the help of the invisible labour of black hands - as a legacy of power and ownership to be inherited and cultivated in perpetuity. Accordingly, the concept "farm" is portrayed as a contested and liminal space inscribed with a history of violence and dispossession - a dystopia. This article therefore conceptualises "Disgrace" as an antipastoral farm novel that reconfigures the concept "farm" - within the context of the South African reality - by subverting, inverting and parodying the structures of space and place postulated by the pastoral farm novel.
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