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dc.contributor.advisorDu Plooy, H.
dc.contributor.advisorVan Schalkwyk, P.L.
dc.contributor.authorDe Beer, Aletta Magrietha
dc.date.accessioned2009-11-19T06:42:01Z
dc.date.available2009-11-19T06:42:01Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10394/2593
dc.descriptionThesis (M.A. (Afrikaans and Dutch))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2009.
dc.description.abstractThis research focused on the metaphor of space as used by Afrikaans female poets in South Africa in the period 1994-2005, both space as an environment and as an abstract space in which the poets find themselves. In this period, South Africa got a new democratic dispensation and women were de-marginalised. As a background to the study, a brief overview was given of the work of various Afrikaans poetesses, but the main focus was on the work of two contemporary poetesses, namely Use van Staden and Wilma Stockenstrom, to observe whether the new role of women in society is reflected in the work of these two poetesses. In the study, the theory of Pierre Bourdieu, a French culture-sociologist, was used, namely that no text is ever "free", but that there is a close relation between text and context. Because only the work of female writers was studied in this research, and because the poetesses give a voice to the spatiality of women, theories of feminism as well as postcolonialism were also involved in the study. The spatial metaphors in the texts of the poetesses were also analysed, because they use metaphors to portray their spatiality. These spatial metaphors also lead to the exploitation of other relevant themes. In the investigation of the representation of spatial metaphors used by Afrikaans poetesses, and in particular Use van Staden and Wilma Stockenstrom, it was found that the spaces in which women find themselves play a prominent role in their lives. It was also observed that there is disharmony between poetesses and the spaces in which they find themselves. This research found that women have been de-marginalised and that the patriarchal system has been crossed, and that this phenomenon is being portrayed by the work of female poets who give a voice to the women of this country and portray the many facets of female experience.
dc.publisherNorth-West University
dc.subjectIlse van Stadenen
dc.subjectWilma Stockenströmen
dc.subjectAfrikaans poetesses spatiality of womenen
dc.subjectPostcolonialismen
dc.subjectFeminismen
dc.subjectSpatial metaphorsen
dc.titleRuimte as tema en metafoor in die poësie van Afrikaanse vroulike digters na 1994afr
dc.typeThesisen
dc.description.thesistypeMasters
dc.contributor.researchID10093656 - Van Schalkwyk, Phillippus Lodewikus (Supervisor)


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