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An Ecocritical Reading of Pieter Fourie's Die Koggelaar

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dc.contributor.author Keuris, Marisa
dc.date.accessioned 2015-05-14T12:39:56Z
dc.date.available 2015-05-14T12:39:56Z
dc.date.issued 2007-12-14
dc.identifier.citation Marisa Keuris (2007) An Ecocritical Reading of Pieter Fourie's Die Koggelaar , Journal of Literary Studies, 23:4, 417-431 en
dc.identifier.issn 0256-4718
dc.identifier.uri http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rjls20
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18624
dc.description Please follow the DOI link at the top of this record to navigate to the official published version of this article. en
dc.description.abstract Pieter Fourie’s Die Koggelaar (1988) is an important play in his oeuvre and one which has been commented on and discussed by various theorists. Most of these discussions focused on Boet Cronje as the protagonist of the play and foregrounded the themes of racism, chauvinism and Afrikaner nationalism in the late eighties as depicted in this play. In my ecocritical reading of this play I move away from a human-centred approach and try to show rather how the characters in this play stand in a special relationship to the Karoo landscape, animals, earth and God; i.e. the interactions and interdependence of the various “worlds” are highlighted. Opsomming Pieter Fourie se Die Koggelaar (1988), is ’n belangrike drama in sy oeuvre en een wat talle teoretici reeds geresenseer en bespreek het. Die meeste van hierdie besprekings het gefokus op Boet Cronje as die protagonis in hierdie drama en het hoofsaaklik die temas van rassisme, chauvinisme en Afrikanernasionalisme, soos uitgebeeld in hierdie drama, ondersoek. In my ekokritiese lesing van die drama beweeg ek weg van ‘n oorwegend mens-gesentreerde benadering en probeer eerder aantoon dat die karakters in hierdie drama in ’n spesiale verhouding staan tot die Karoo-landskap, die diere, aarde en God; m.a.w. die interaksies en interafhanklikheid van die onderskeie “wêrelde” word uitgelig. en
dc.language.iso en en
dc.publisher Taylor & Francis en
dc.title An Ecocritical Reading of Pieter Fourie's Die Koggelaar en
dc.type Article en
dc.description.department Afrikaans and Theory of Literature en


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