Mimesis, Memory, Memorandum

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Abstract

Memorandum: A Story with Paintings (2006b) explores the complex relationship between memory and mimesis. Written in response to Adriaan van Zyl’s photographic realism, Marlene van Niekerk’s metafiction provokes thought about the affinities between writing and painting.

 

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Memorandum: ’n Verhaal met skilderye (2006a) besin oor die ingewikkelde verhouding tussen herinnering en mimesis. Marlene van Niekerk se metafiksie, wat geskryf is as antwoord op Adriaan van Zyl se fotografiese realisme, lok gedagtes uit oor die verwantskap tussen die skryf- en die skilderkuns.

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Author Biography

Mark Sanders, New York University

Mark Sanders is Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. He is the author of Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid and Ambiguities of Witnessing: Law and Literature in the Time of a Truth Commission. He delivered the annual N.P. van Wyk Louw Memorial Lecture at the University of Johannesburg in 2005.

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2009-09-01

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Sanders, Mark. 2009. “Mimesis, Memory, Memorandum”. Journal of Literary Studies 25 (3):106-23. https://unisapressjournals.co.za/index.php/jls/article/view/12439.

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Vol. 25 No. 3 (2009): “Om kommunikasie op gang te kry”: Die begin en einde van Marlene van Niekerk se oeuvre

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