In the name of arthur nortje: life, death and biographic representation

The article examines how the life and death of Arthur Nortje — a South African poet who died in 1970 — have been represented biographically, and problematizes the challenges of reconstructing a life from fragmented traces (poems, journals, letters). Klopper analyses the difficulties in writing a biography of Nortje: how to balance between textual evidence (published poems, unpublished journals) and the silences/gaps in archival material, how representation may distort or simplify the complex reality of identity, exile, alienation, racial “colouredness”, psychological suffering. The article reflects on the broader theoretical question of “biographic representation”: to what extent biography can capture a life that is marked by dislocation, marginalization, internal division — rather than a linear, “coherent” narrative.

Loại tài liệu:

Article - Bài báo

Tác giả:

Klopper, Dirk

Đề mục:

Literary biography

Nhà xuất bản:

Taylor & Francis

Ngày xuất bản:

2002

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Định dạng:

pdf

Định danh tư liệu:

https://doi.org/10.1080/00138390208691307

Nguồn gốc:

English Studies in Africa, Volume 45, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 19-29

Liên kết:

ISSN 0013-8398

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In the name of arthur nortje: life, death and biographic representation

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