Tyd in samewerking met ander struktuurelemente, geïllustreer aan enkele Afrikaanse prosawerke / Marisa Mouton

• Main Author: Mouton, Marisa
• Language: other
• Published: Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education 2013
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10394/8245

by their various attitudes to and experiences of time. The changing of narrators throughout this novel was seen in conjunction with time, as were the events. Not only did time influence all three these fundamental aspects of the novel -characters, narra= tors, events -but it acted as an integrating link between all these different elements. The second work to be studied was the novel Na die geliefde land (Promised Land -translated by Marion Friedman, 1979) of Karel Schoeman. The discussion of this work centered on the characters -their va= rious perspectives on the past (memories) and the present (reality) -and on the influence of time on space. The third work studied was Wilma Stockenstrom's Die Kremetartekspedisie (The Baobab Expedition -my translation.) In this example the workings of time were discerned in the thematical allusions to it and in the unique way in which the slave woman's memory structured the events. A study of time brought new insights to all three these diverse works. The conclusion reached by this dissertation is that time, as an important struc= ture element of the novel, should not be studied in isolation, but that it must always be seen in connec= tion with the other prose elements. The novel can be fully appreciated and enjoyed only when this underlaying interaction between time and the other elements is laid bare. === Thesis (MA)--PU vir CHO, 1983