- Title
- In Parenthesis:
- Creator
- de Jager, Maureen
- Date Issued
- 2019
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147880
- Identifier
- vital:38681
- Identifier
- DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2019.1684966
- Description
- IN PARENTHESIS is a practice-based essay which takes shape, parasitically, amidst the “found text” of an existing book, British author Thomas Pakenham's The Boer War (1979, Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball). The “author-reader” interjects into the found text of this authoritative history book, inserting her words amongst those of Pakenham's. What becomes apparent, however, is that the text into which she interjects is not The Boer War verbatim, but a dramatically abridged version. The book's primary content has been edited out. What remains is The Boer War whittled down to a litany of Pakenham's parentheses (the history book distilled into an essence of the seemingly non-essential). Into this stream of bracketed matter, the author-reader writes, ruminating on the parenthesis as ethos (as prison and portal, barricade and breach, enclave and embrace). In turn, her ruminations invite reflection on the conundrum of writing history, of writing this history (and, indeed, of writing per se).
- Format
- 17 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Critical Arts
- Relation
- Maureen de Jager (2019) In Parenthesis, Critical Arts, DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2019.1684966
- Relation
- Critical Arts volume number December 2019 1992-6049
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