Open AccessAuthorship and auteurism in Another Country
Author(s) -
Stella Viljoen
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
tydskrif vir letterkunde
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2309-9070
pISSN - 0041-476X
DOI - 10.4314/tvl.v41i2.29673
Subject(s) - invisibility , technocracy , order (exchange) , musical , literature , art , raising (metalworking) , history , art history , aesthetics , law , political science , politics , engineering , mechanical engineering , finance , economics , physics , optics
In 1873 Benjamin Disraeli could bemoan, "[a]n author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children." Today, however, authorship is a consumable that demands endless promoting in order to be profitable. The ironic predicament of the author within contemporary (technocratic) culture is his frequent invisibility. Another Country is an apposite vehicle for raising the quandary of contemporary authorship since it is first, a music video and thus a promotional tool itself and second, an authorial collaboration between musical artists Mango Groove and "fine artist" William Kentridge.