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Die representasie van slaafskap in 'Die kremetartekspedisie' deur Wilma Stockenström : die voorstelling van die onvoorstelbareJordaan, Margarethé Maria 12 1900 (has links)
Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch Universiteit, 2000. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this study the role played by literature or fiction in historiography
is investigated. Firstly, the problem of representing an "objective
reality" is outlined, and subsequently applied to the domain of
historiography by questioning terms such as "objectivity", "reality"
and "truth". Due attention is given to changing perceptions about
the nature of history writing. It is indicated that historiography
cannot render or recreate the past as something which is present
here-and-now and, therefore, that history writing is of necessity
always an interpreted and subjectively construed representation of
an ephemeral "reality".
Against this background the thesis focuses on that part of South
African history (slavery) which for a variety of reasons lacks a
formalised historiography. It is indicated how the "gaps" created by
the failures of formalised historiography can be "filled" by the
suggestive power of the literary imagination.
Wilma Stockenstrëm's Die kremetartekspedisie (1981) is used to
exemplify the above claims by specifically noting how the personal
slave experience is described through the literary imagination in
Die kremetartekspedisie. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In hierdie studie word daar ondersoek ingestel na die moontlike rol
wat letterkunde of fiksie kan speel in die geskiedskrywingsproses.
As agtergrond word die problematiek rondom die bestaan en
voorstelling van 'n 'objektiewe werklikheid' bespreek en uitgebrei
na die terrein van die historiografie deur die bevraagtekening van
terme soos 'objektiwiteit', 'werklikheid' en 'waarheid'. Daar word
aandag geskenk aan verskuiwende persepsies oor die aard van
geskiedskrywing en aangedui dat historiografie nooit die verlede
teenwoordig kan stel nie en dat geskiedskrywing altyd 'n
geïnterpreteerde en subjektief-gekonstrueerde representasie van 'n
verbygegane 'werklikheid' is.
Teen hierdie agtergrond word daar spesifiek gelet op 'n gedeelte
van die Suid-Afrikaanse geskiedenis wat, as gevolg van verskeie
redes, 'ontbreek' in formele geskiedskrywing, naamlik slawerny.
Daar word aangedui hoe hierdie gapings op suggestiewe wyse
deur die literêre verbeelding 'gevul' kan word.
Die kremetartekspedisie deur Wilma Stockenstr6m dien as
voorbeeldteks om bogenoemde punt te illustreer deur spesifiek te
let op die wyse waarop 'n slavin moontlik haar persoonlike ervaring
van haar slaafskap sou kon verwoord soos dit in Die
kremetartekspedisie deur die literêre verbeelding gedoen word.
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A critical study of the evidence of Andries Stockenstrom before the Aborigines Committee in 1835, viewed in the light of his statements and policies before 1935Urie, J M January 1953 (has links)
In recent years, increasing interest has been taken in the career of Andries Stockenstrom. Detailed study of his policy as Landdrost of Graaff-Reinet , as Commissioner-General of the Eastern Districts, and as Lieutenant-Governor, has brought about a realization of the soundness and value of much of his work. This appreciation of the sterling qualities of Stockenstrom's character- despite his undoubtedly difficult temperament - has led to the tacit assumption that the accusations which were levelled against him, and the odium in which he was held in Albany, after his evidence before the Aborigines Committee 1835 -1836, were largely the result of unfortunate newspaper propaganda. That evidence, it is implied - coming as it did at a time when public opinion was peculiarly sensitive to criticism - was in fact, not as black as it had been painted. Yet the events of the period between the Commissioner-Generalship and the Lieutenant- Governorship have not only coloured the judgment upon Stockenstrom of almost every writer on South African history, but so influenced contemporary public opinion as to materially impair the efficiency of his Lieutenant-Governorship. In writing this thesis, it has heen my purpose to make a detailed study of such material as is available for the period 1833-1836, and to endeavour, by an analysis of the evidence more particularly in the light of the years before 1833, to set this significant period in Stockenstrom' s career in its right perspective.
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