Konteks en kultuurhistoriese betekenis van die melkstoeltjie, soos uitgebeeld in kinderlektuur en politieke spotprente

dc.contributor.authorBotes, Nico
dc.contributor.authorLe Roux, S.W. (Schalk Willem)
dc.date.accessioned2012-05-18T13:17:54Z
dc.date.available2012-05-18T13:17:54Z
dc.date.issued2011-11
dc.description.abstractThe humble milking stool is usually associated only with dairy production. This article investigates a broader context and socio-historical meaning portrayed in selected illustrations in English and Afrikaans children’s literature – especially picture books and volumes of rhyme – and depictions in South African political cartoons. In children’s books, where three- and four-legged milking stools appear as either purposeful or accidental theatrical properties, they represent a meagre and noble rural, even agrarian, existence. For their size, they often contribute to the setting of an intimate scale. At least until late in the twentieth century, they are employed as credible and recognisable objects of a scale and simplicity that is easily accessible to the young viewer and reader. Three-legged milking stools especially serve as symbols of a vulnerable stability in South African political cartoons, where the structural stability and co-dependence of three legs are often portrayed metaphorically. This metaphor is also widely used in contemporary English, Dutch and Flemish scholarly texts. Through this figure of speech, the traditional notion of the almost forgotten milking stool survives into the twenty first century.en_US
dc.description.abstractDie nederige melkstoeltjie word gewoonlik slegs met melkery geassosieer. Hier word ondersoek ingestel na ’n breër begrip van konteks en kultuurhistoriese betekenis aan die hand van enkele illustrasies in Engelse en Afrikaanse kinderlektuur – veral prenteboeke en rymbundels – en uitbeeldings in Suid-Afrikaanse politieke spotprente. Verbande met ’n skamel en edel landelike, selfs landboukundige bestaan, figureer in illustrasies uit kinderboeke waar drie- en vierpootstoeltjies as doelbewuste, of toevallige, rekwisiete voorkom. In beeld dra die grootte van die voorwerp hier by tot ’n intieme skaal. Dit dien, minstens in kinderlektuur tot laat in die twintigste eeu, as geloofwaardige en herkenbare voorwerpe waarvan die grootte en eenvoud toeganklik vir die jong kyker en leser was. In Suid-Afrikaanse politieke spotprente dien driepotige melkstoeltjies verder as kenbare simbool van ’n kwesbare ewewig in die politiek, waar die strukturele stabiliteit en interafhanklikheid van drie pote metafories verbeeld word. Hierdie metafoor word ook so gebruik in eietydse vakliteratuur in Engels, Nederlands en Vlaams. Die tradisionele begrip van die amper-vergete melkstoeltjie leef dus deur beeldspraak in die 21ste eeu voort.af
dc.description.librarianai2012en
dc.description.urihttp://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_culture.htmlen_US
dc.identifier.citationBotes, N & Le Roux, SW 2011, 'Konteks en kultuurhistoriese betekenis van die melkstoeltjie, soos uitgebeeld in kinderlektuur en politieke spotprente', South African Journal of Cultural History, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 1-20.af
dc.identifier.issn1018-0745
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/18789
dc.language.isoAfrikaansen_US
dc.publisherSouth African Society of Cultural Historyen_US
dc.rightsSouth African Society of Cultural Historyen_US
dc.subjectIllustrationen_US
dc.subjectMaterial cultureen_US
dc.subjectNursery rhymeen_US
dc.subjectPolitical cartoonen_US
dc.subjectTripoden_US
dc.subjectVernacular cultureen_US
dc.subjectDriepootaf
dc.subjectIllustrasieaf
dc.subjectKinderlektuuraf
dc.subjectKinderrympieaf
dc.subjectMelkstoeltjieaf
dc.subjectPolitieke spotprentaf
dc.subjectStoflike kultuuraf
dc.subjectVolkskultuuraf
dc.subject.lcshMilking stools -- Juvenile literatureen
dc.subject.lcshMilking stools -- Caricatures and cartoonsen
dc.subject.lcshChildren's literature -- Illustrationsen
dc.subject.lcshRural conditions in arten
dc.subject.lcshRural conditions in literatureen
dc.subject.lcshIllustration of books -- Themes, motivesen
dc.subject.lcshPolitics in arten
dc.titleKonteks en kultuurhistoriese betekenis van die melkstoeltjie, soos uitgebeeld in kinderlektuur en politieke spotprenteaf
dc.title.alternativeContext and cultural-historical meaning of the milking stool, as depicted in children’s literature and political cartoonsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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