Outobiografie en herinnering as verset in Adam Small se The Orange Earth

dc.contributor.authorWillemse, Hein (Heinrich Stephen Samuel)
dc.contributor.emailhein.willemse@up.ac.zaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-02-08T11:10:56Z
dc.date.available2012-02-08T11:10:56Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractThe Orange Earth is discussed here as a fictionalised autobiographical account in which the Afrikaans poet and playwright, Adam Small, reflects on the impact of apartheid, creating a counternarrative of a marginalised life during that political system. In the play, presented essentially as a play of ideas, the Coloured main character Johnny Adams, the fictionalised alter ego of the author, plants a bomb that kills a white child and much of the action involves his rationalization of his deed of terror. The play references the cultural and linguistic relationship between Coloured and white Afrikaans-speaking people, and the former's humiliation and exclusion under the apartheid policy. It is argued inter alia that Small's choice of English as a language of literary expression could be interpreted as part of a counterdiscourse on cultural disaffection and political disillusion just as his option of urban violence as a solution to apartheid, his "cry for citizenship", amounts to a desperate act rather than one of revolutionary violence. The article concludes with a discussion on the multiple meanings associated with the title that serves as a metaphor for the countermemory of Small's narrative.en
dc.description.librariannf2012en
dc.description.urihttp://www.letterkunde.up.ac.za/en_US
dc.identifier.citationWillemse, H 2012, 'Outobiografie en herinnering as verset in Adam Small se The Orange Earth', Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 70-81.af
dc.identifier.issn0041-476X
dc.identifier.other10.4314/tvl.v49i1.6
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/18053
dc.language.isoAfrikaansaf
dc.publisherTydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasieen_US
dc.rightsTydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasieen
dc.subjectAfrikaans cultureen
dc.subjectAnti-apartheid literatureen
dc.subjectRevolutionary violenceen
dc.subject.lcshSmall, Adam, 1936- .The Orange Earthen
dc.subject.lcshApartheid in literatureen
dc.subject.lcshAutobiographical drama, English -- South Africaen
dc.subject.lcshRace relations in literatureen
dc.titleOutobiografie en herinnering as verset in Adam Small se The Orange Earthaf
dc.title.alternativeAutobiography and memory as resistance in Adam Small's The Orange Earthen
dc.typeArticleaf

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