The gaze in reflection : a pilgrimage towards biography
| dc.contributor.advisor | Combrink, Annette | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mecl, Vera Marie | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2009-02-04T09:57:49Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2009-02-04T09:57:49Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2004 | |
| dc.description | Thesis (MA (General Theory of Language and Literature))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2004. | |
| dc.description.abstract | The writing of a biography on the life of the cabaret artiste, who was also the wife of a celebrated caricaturist and artist, a socialite, devoted daughter and eventually a mother herself: Hilde Czapski, Hilde Gert, Hilde Simmel and Hilde Mecl, is the subject of this dissertation. A woman born in a country whose androcentric, racist and genocidal tendencies denied her not only a voice as a woman, dignity as a human being, but her very existence. Chapter 1 deals with aspects of truth and fiction and the position of the narrator within the genre of biography. Chapter 2 illustrates the reflective path followed by the writer to conceive a biography on her mother. Chapter 3 looks at the female gaze - upon herself, her world and those closest to her. Chapter 4 examines humour and its use as a defence mechanism. Chapter 5 describes the subject's life in her adoptive country, her untimely death, and the emergence of her vindication and immortalisation through biography that will celebrate her life. | |
| dc.description.thesistype | Masters | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10394/405 | |
| dc.publisher | North-West University | |
| dc.title | The gaze in reflection : a pilgrimage towards biography | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |