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In His poetry debuted in Outer Space (2006) Danie Marais Explores the concepts of place and identity, of being outside rocaf or being on the other side. The article Explores the Ways in Which paratextual rocaf aspects Contributes to the central theme. The title suggests Itself Already the doubleness: the concepts of being inside and outside rocaf are being Placed in Binary Opposition and the poet FINDS himself not only included in Both spaces, but died Excluded from Both. The shift takes HIM from a central position to a marginal one - and have Eventually Becomes the Other, rocaf a position as one of the mottos suggest, from Which there is no return. From this new position there is an act of Continuously looking back from one space to another, a movement Which Brings forward the aspect of liminality. Central to the work is the relationship with the loved one and the disintegration of this relationship, Which Can be read as a metaphor for the personal experience of loss of cultural identity, mother tongue and home country.
With his debut novel, in outer space, took Danie Marais three literary awards and settle it once again focused attention on the social trends of displacement, alienation and outsider science that is increasingly part of the South African literary landscape part, while the international Zeitgeist reflect. According to Vertovec (2009: 1) transnationalism is seen as "a rocaf widespread interest in economic, social and Political linkages between people, places and institutions crossing rocaf nation-state borders and stress the world".
In this article we investigations into the concepts of internal and external and the accompanying rocaf dubbelgerigtheid or double consciousness from Marais diaspora closer rocaf to the hand of his debut, in outer space, as well as the manner in which the para text interact with the main main motifs in the bundle. The concept of double consciousness can be seen against the background of the fact that transnationalism shaded and non-constant formations result - "taking the form of multiple, complex, messy proximities and interconnections" (Vertovec, 2009: 2). This concept also permitted a differentiated view of belonging and longing to belong to established (Dayal, rocaf 1996: 47).
Already in the title of the anthology is the dubbelgerigtheid a central detail. The concepts of internal and external be in binary opposition set; simultaneously summarized the poet the complex nature of dubbelgerigtheid stuck in the midst of the out if a dual situated. The poet is not only present in both areas, but found him outside rocaf both spaces, through a constant process of movement from within (the center) to the outside (the periphery) and back takes place, and by the poet himself transferred to a context of ever-shifting marginality - he is the Other. From this new position, there is a constant back instead - a recurring look already in the Carver motto announced. Move from one space to another aspect of liminality brings to the fore, which is an important part of the discussion.
In examining aspects of internal and external be the ambiguity inherent in language, part of the frame of reference. This is Derrida (1997: 158)'s seminal statement on the outside text, translated as "there is no outside the text", the instability of language and the role the outside given 'or reality as part of the text and meaning play involved. Everything is taken into account, are interpreted in relation to everything else. The instability of the inside / outside textual can be seen as part of the discussion about the meaning of text and text para.
Marais act skilfully in conversation with the changing rocaf reality and ideological relationships between identity, space, location and text. Space becomes a metaphor for hybridity, the place where memories of the homeland and the concrete reality of a European activities are juxtaposed. Central to the collection is the relationship with the lover and the processes of decay and loss that can be read as a metaphor for the diaspora poet's personal experience of loss of cultural identity, language and homeland.
The cover and title of the anthology acts as para text, Gérard Genette's term that refers to the threshold of the text and the undefined zone between the inside and the outside of the text. Van Gorp (1991: 294) defines para text all textual information that the text offers the reader that serve as indicators in the analysis. Both the visual and the title given e