Literator (May 1992)

Suidpunt-jazz van André Letoit: Waardeoordeel en die lees van ’n postmodernistiese prosateks

  • W. Burger

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4102/lit.v13i1.723
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 51 – 66

Abstract

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In reviews of the postmodernist novel, Suidpunt-jazz, certain value judgements are made. The norms on which these assessments are based are examined by using a model of Boonstra (1979). According to this model, coherence is singled out as the most important norm in these reviews. By emphasizing this norm, a balanced evaluation of a postmodernist text becomes impossible. Eventually other norms (illusion-breaking and différance) are shown to be possibly more valid for evaluating a postmodernist text like Suidpunt-jazz.