‘The small man with the big weapon’ : an examination of representations of the great white hunter in South African English-language poetry

dc.contributor.authorZerbst, Fiona
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-15T13:06:14Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThe literary and cinematic trope of the great white hunter, which was prominent in the mid-twentieth century, had its roots in the trophy-hunting traditions of predominantly Europeans who visited southern Africa in the 1900s. While sport hunting reached its apogee between 1870 and 1914, a new breed of hunters (many of them aristocrats, tycoons or industrialists) was subsequently drawn to southern Africa for the ‘safari’ experience. Great white hunters were ‘safari guides’ with sufficient knowledge and experience to guide hunting parties in the region, which became a playground for wealthy elites. This article examines a selection of South African English-language poems that engage with the great white hunter trope. It contextualizes the ‘legend’ of the great white hunter within the history of sport or trophy hunting in South Africa, from the 1800s to the present.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentEnglishen_ZA
dc.description.embargo2020-11-27
dc.description.librarianhj2019en_ZA
dc.description.urihttps://www.tandfonline.com/loi/racr20en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationFiona Zerbst (2019) ‘The Small Man with the Big Weapon’: An Examination of Representations of the Great White Hunter in South African English-Language Poetry, English Academy Review, 36:1, 84-99, DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2019.1603895.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1013-1752 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1753-5360 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1080/10131752.2019.1603895
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/70714
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_ZA
dc.rights© The English Academy of Southern Africa 2019. This is an electronic version of an article published in English Academy Review, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 84-99, 2019. doi : 10.1080/10131752.2019.1603895. English Academy Review is available online at : http://www.tandfonline.comloi/racr20.en_ZA
dc.subjectTatamkulu Afrikaen_ZA
dc.subjectConservationen_ZA
dc.subjectStephen Grayen_ZA
dc.subjectGreat white hunteren_ZA
dc.subjectHuntingen_ZA
dc.subjectDouglas Livingstoneen_ZA
dc.subjectWilliam Plomeren_ZA
dc.subjectAndrew Renarden_ZA
dc.subjectSouth Africa (SA)en_ZA
dc.subjectTrophy huntingen_ZA
dc.subjectWendy Woodwarden_ZA
dc.title‘The small man with the big weapon’ : an examination of representations of the great white hunter in South African English-language poetryen_ZA
dc.typePostprint Articleen_ZA

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