Self-writing is a literary site that seeks to interrogate issues of subjectivity, experience and laying oneself bare. Its proponents immerse themselves in a particular spatial and temporal frame such as the colonial times, the apartheid era and the democratic moment. There are autobiographical writings that celebrate individual consciousness, style and experience during the apartheid era in South Africa. This article investigates how, from a selection of his poetry, KPD Maphalla ‘narrates himself in verse’, where the focus is to distinguish Maphalla the author (the narrator) from Maphalla the character (the narrated, the self-referent). The article considers the autobiographical elements of theme and style as conveyors of the meeting place between the narrator and the narrated in Maphalla’s poetry.

Self-writing 是一个文学网站，旨在审视主观性、经验和暴露自己的问题。它的支持者沉浸在特定的时空框架中，例如殖民时代、种族隔离时代和民主时刻。有一些自传体作品颂扬南非种族隔离时代的个人意识、风格和经历。本文探讨了 KPD Maphalla 如何从他的诗歌选集中“用诗歌叙述自己”，重点是区分作者 Maphalla（叙述者）和人物 Maphalla（被叙述者、自我指涉者）。本文将主题和风格的自传元素视为 Maphalla 诗歌中叙述者和被叙述者之间的交汇点。