Foe: The narrative and power
Abstract
What does it mean to narrate? More specifically, what does literary narration entail? These are the questions which are tentatively broached in this article. In order to do so, two possible readings of Coetzee's. Foe are juxtaposed, the first stemming from a Freudomarxist tradition and the second from certain aspects of Foucault's work. The article attempts to show that an understanding of the circulation of narratives necessitates a shift from an analysis of the Symbolic, to an analysis of the mechanisms of power production in narrative discourse. The subject-object-body relation then appears as the nexus of the questions of narrativisation, of power and of resistance to power.
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Wat beteken dit om te vertel? Meer spesifiek, wat behels literere vertelling? Dit is hierdie vrae wat op 'n tentatiewe manier in hierdie artikel aangeraak word. Om dit te kan doen, word twee rnoontlike interpretasies van Coetzee se Foe langs mekaar geplaas: die eerste spruit voort uit 'n Freudo-marxistiese tradisie en die tweede uit sekere aspekte van Foucault se werk. Die artikel wend 'n poging aan om te wys dat 'n volledige begrip van die sirkulasie van vertellings 'n verskuiwing van 'n analise van die Simboliek na 'n analise van die meganisrnes van magproduksie in narratiewe diskoers benodig. Die subjek-objekliggaam verhouding kom dan voor as die neksus van die kwessies van narrativisering, mag en weerstand tot mag.
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