The Works of Wally Mongane Serote: The Quest for a Supreme Literary Form
Abstract
Serote’s ouvre – the lyrics, the fiction, and the essays – represent a triumph of a special order. Springing from a dedicated artist’s effort to master the techniques of evocation, narration, analysis, and revelation which are so important to the craft of writing, they are also the result of Serote’s quest for fresh methods to explore the narrative and dramatic possibilities of the South African experience. What is special about Serote’s achievement is the manner the three literary forms serve one another. For in keeping with the multidimensional nature of his quest and by the disciplines of the three literary forms, it was necessary that the techniques arrived at be such as would allow him to explore the complex dynamics of the South African experience without violating his passionate dedication to narrative as a fundamental agency for exploring the human condition as it plays itself out in modern South African history.
Opsomming
Serote se ouvre – die lirieke, die fiksie en die essays – verteenwoordig ’n triomf van ’n spesiale orde. Hoewel dit voortspruit uit ’n toegewyde kunstenaar se pogings om die tegnieke te bemeester van evokasie, vertelling, ontleding en openbaring wat so belangrik is in die skryfkuns, is dit ook die resultaat van Serote se soeke na vars metodes om die narratiewe en dramatiese moontlikhede van die Suid-Afrikaanse ervaring te ondersoek. Wat besonders is omtrent dit wat Serote bereik het, is die manier waarop die drie literêre vorms mekaar tot diens is. In ooreenstemming met die multidimensionele aard van sy soeke, en weens die dissiplines van die drie literêre vorme, was dit nodig dat die tegnieke waarby hy uitgekom het sodanig moet wees dat dit hom in staat stel om die komplekse dinamiek van die Suid-Afrikaanse ervaring te ondersoek sonder om inbreuk te maak op sy hartstogtelike toewyding aan die narratief as die fundamentele medium vir die ondersoek van die menslike toestand soos dit uitgespeel word in die moderne Suid-Afrikaanse geskiedenis.
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