dc.contributor.author |
Pieterse, Jimmy
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dc.date.accessioned |
2010-07-02T12:16:55Z |
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dc.date.available |
2010-07-02T12:16:55Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2010-05 |
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dc.description.abstract |
Women in nineteenth century southern Africa used storytelling, especially tales in
which tricksters were the central characters, in order to make sense of – and often to
critique – rapidly changing social and political orders. The stories they told constitute
an underutilised historical source. This article draws from four anthologies compiled
by men engaged in missionary endeavours in the region to explore these points. I
argue that these tales complicate our understanding of ethnic and gendered identity
construction during the period and promise to cast new light on contemporary
understandings of social reproduction, especially during times of societal upheaval. |
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dc.description.abstract |
Negentiende-eeuse suider-Afrikaanse vroue het stories, veral stories waarin truuksters
die hoofkarakters gespeel het, gebruik om sin te maak van vinnig-veranderende
sosiale en politieke ordes, en gereeld ook om dit te kritiseer. Die stories wat hulle
vertel het, verteenwoordig onderbenutte geskiedkundige bronne. In hierdie artikel
maak ek gebruik van vier negentiende-eeuse bundels, saamgestel deur mans wat hulle
in sendingwerk gebesig het, om hierdie punte te ondersoek. Ek argumenteer dat
hierdie stories die manier waarop ons etniese- en gender-identiteitsformasie verstaan,
kompliseer, en nuwe lig mag werp op die wyses waarop daar aan sosiale reproduksie
in tye van sosiale wanorde gedink word. |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Pieterse, J 2010, 'Trickster tropes : Female storytelling and the re-imagination of social orders in four nineteenth-century southern African communities', Historia, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 55-77. [http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_hist.html] |
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dc.identifier.issn |
0018-229X |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2263/14394 |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
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dc.publisher |
Historical Association of South Africa |
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dc.rights |
Historical Association of South Africa |
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dc.subject |
Folktales |
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dc.subject |
Tricksters |
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dc.subject |
Cannibalism |
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dc.subject |
Gender |
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dc.subject |
Ethnicity |
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dc.subject |
Southern Africa |
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dc.subject |
Social reproduction |
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dc.subject |
Kinship |
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dc.subject |
Oral narrative |
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dc.subject |
IsiZulu |
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dc.subject |
IsiXhosa |
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dc.subject |
Baronga |
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dc.subject |
BaSotho |
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dc.subject |
Storytelling |
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dc.subject |
Social order |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Women folklorists -- Africa, Southern |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Folklore -- South Africa |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Social structure |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Storytelling |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Tricksters |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Social history |
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dc.title |
Trickster tropes : Female storytelling and the re-imagination of social orders in four nineteenth-century southern African communities |
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dc.title.alternative |
Truukster-trope : Vroulike storievertelling en die her-verbeelding van sosiale ordes in vier negentiende-eeuse suider-Afrikaanse gemeenskappe |
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dc.type |
Article |
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