자료유형  

 학위논문

Control Number  

0017163551

International Standard Book Number  

9798342711616

Dewey Decimal Classification Number  

809

Main Entry-Personal Name  

Rautenbach, Anneke.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

[S.l.] : New York University., 2024

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024

Physical Description  

252 p.

General Note  

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-04, Section: A.

General Note  

Advisor: Hofmeyr, Isabel.

Dissertation Note  

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2024.

Summary, Etc.  

요약"The Grain of Sand in the Machine:"Accidents of Language and the Writer-Intellectual in Southern Africa takes a comparative approach to the post-independence southern African intellectual, redefining this figure as someone who intervenes in public discourse and mediates between figurative language and its material effects. I explore the work of several Anglophone intellectuals - Bessie Head, Phaswane Mpe, Thabo Mbeki, and Namwali Serpell - each of whom intervenes in dominant discourses of "development" in the region. In doing so, I draw on the concept of language as "performative:" a force which acts independently of an individual speaker or writer, and which influences a range of material phenomena - from infectious diseases, to environmental degradation, to the generation and effects of various technologies. The writer-intellectual, I propose, claims agency over the material force of language; however, their intervention is often followed by its own unintended consequences - something I demonstrate by analyzing the uneven and unexpected reception of the texts I study. While postcolonial theories of the intellectual have focused on their role as a witness and an advocate for the less powerful, I argue that their key intervention takes effect in the sphere of language, while recent developments in theories of the "performative" raise the stakes of public intellectual work.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Comparative literature.

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Language.

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Linguistics.

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African history.

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South African studies.

Index Term-Uncontrolled  

Discourses of development

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Ecocriticism

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Medical humanities

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Postcolonial studies

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Southern African intellectual

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New York University Comparative Literature

Host Item Entry  

Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-04A.

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joongbu:658522