Bosman: A proto-postcolonial author?
Bosman scholars tend either to have focused on the humour and entertainment value of his works or to have leaned towards appreciation for the satirical quality of his writing and the serious political commentary that accompanies and underpins it. Building on these insights, the present study investi...
| Publicado en: | Literator Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 1 - 12 |
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2022
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=161401557&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 161401557 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 02582279 G1C jtl: Literator issn: 02582279 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2022 vid: 43 iid: 1 pid: 56831 pub: African Online Scientific Information System PTY LTD artinfo: ui: 161401557 10.4102/lit.v43i1.1868 ppf: 1 ppct: 11 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 878KB tig: atl: Bosman: A proto-postcolonial author? aug: au: Loonate, Farzanah affil: Research Focus Area: Social Transformation, Faculty of Humanities, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa su: Political communication Bosmun (Papua New Guinean people) Satire Postcolonialism Equality sug: subj: Political communication Bosmun (Papua New Guinean people) Satire Postcolonialism Equality keyword: apartheid cultural hybridity English colonialism Herman Charles Bosman linguistic hybridity multiculturalism parody postcolonial theory proto-postcolonial author South African War ab: Bosman scholars tend either to have focused on the humour and entertainment value of his works or to have leaned towards appreciation for the satirical quality of his writing and the serious political commentary that accompanies and underpins it. Building on these insights, the present study investigates Bosman's preoccupation with South Africa's politics in order to determine whether he could be classified a 'proto-postcolonial author'. It discusses key features of postcolonial theory and writing and elucidates the term 'proto-postcolonial'. It then analyses selected texts in terms of their political themes – five short stories from the collections Ramoutsa Road (1987), Unto Dust (1991) and the novel Willemsdorp (written in 1951, first published in 1977). The focus is on Bosman's form of subtle protest against contemporary inequalities and injustices through his use of satire and techniques such as parody, irony and other linguistic and stylistic devices. Political themes that emerge from this analysis – including the detrimental effects of colonisation, racism, displacement, subjugation, repression and hybridity – are echoed and developed further in discussion of other, subsequent postcolonial writing. This study, therefore, reveals Bosman as a precursor of this later important body of literature and as a writer ahead of his times who has earned his place as a 'proto-postcolonial' author. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Literator is the property of African Online Scientific Information System PTY LTD and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Literator holder: African Online Scientific Information System PTY LTD dt: @attributes: year: 2022 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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