Don Maclennan (1929-2009): obituary
- Authors: Cornwell, Gareth D N
- Date: 2009
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6118 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004620
- Description: Donald Alasdair Calum Maclennan, the South African playwright, poet and critic, died in Port Elizabeth on February 9, 2009, at the age of 79. He will be remembered chiefly for the poetry that he published in the last three decades of his life.
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- Date Issued: 2009
- Authors: Cornwell, Gareth D N
- Date: 2009
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6118 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004620
- Description: Donald Alasdair Calum Maclennan, the South African playwright, poet and critic, died in Port Elizabeth on February 9, 2009, at the age of 79. He will be remembered chiefly for the poetry that he published in the last three decades of his life.
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- Date Issued: 2009
"He and His Man": allegory and catachresis in J. M. Coetzee's Nobel Lecture
- Authors: Cornwell, Gareth D N
- Date: 2007
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:2261 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004619
- Description: This essay offers a reading of J.M. Coetzee's 2003 Nobel Lecture, "He and His Man," a narrative featuring the characters of Robinson Crusoe and Daniel Defoe that borrows extensively from Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year (1722) and Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724-26). In it Coetzee whimsically explores several concerns of central importance for the activities of reading and writing, most notably the seemingly unavoidable (though ostensibly disabling) phenomenon of displacement or substitution that -- at its most generalizable level -- is best characterized as catachresis.
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- Date Issued: 2007
- Authors: Cornwell, Gareth D N
- Date: 2007
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:2261 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004619
- Description: This essay offers a reading of J.M. Coetzee's 2003 Nobel Lecture, "He and His Man," a narrative featuring the characters of Robinson Crusoe and Daniel Defoe that borrows extensively from Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year (1722) and Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724-26). In it Coetzee whimsically explores several concerns of central importance for the activities of reading and writing, most notably the seemingly unavoidable (though ostensibly disabling) phenomenon of displacement or substitution that -- at its most generalizable level -- is best characterized as catachresis.
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- Date Issued: 2007
Disgraceland: history and the humanities in frontier country
- Authors: Cornwell, Gareth D N
- Date: 2003
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6117 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004618
- Description: This paper explores the significance of Coetzee's choice of Salem in the Eastern Cape as the (part) setting for his novel Disgrace. A determinedly local and historical reading of the text suggests that Lucy's conduct represents an "ideal" solution to the historical issues of wrong and reparation raised in the novel. This finding is scrutinized through a reading of "The Humanities in Africa" from Elizabeth Costello, and it is concluded that whatever hope for rehabilitation or redemption the novel holds out for white South Africans necessarily exists beyond the discourse of the humanities, indeed, outside of history itself.
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- Date Issued: 2003
- Authors: Cornwell, Gareth D N
- Date: 2003
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6117 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004618
- Description: This paper explores the significance of Coetzee's choice of Salem in the Eastern Cape as the (part) setting for his novel Disgrace. A determinedly local and historical reading of the text suggests that Lucy's conduct represents an "ideal" solution to the historical issues of wrong and reparation raised in the novel. This finding is scrutinized through a reading of "The Humanities in Africa" from Elizabeth Costello, and it is concluded that whatever hope for rehabilitation or redemption the novel holds out for white South Africans necessarily exists beyond the discourse of the humanities, indeed, outside of history itself.
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- Date Issued: 2003
George Webb Hardy's the Black Peril and the social meaning of ‘Black Peril’ in early twentieth-century South Africa
- Authors: Cornwell, Gareth D N
- Date: 1996
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: vital:6116 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004240 , https://doi.org/10.1080/03057079608708504
- Description: preprint , The 'Black Peril' — the threatened rape of white women by black men — was an important factor in the moral economy underpinning colonial debate about the 'Native Question' in early twentieth-century South Africa. This essay gives sympathetic consideration to studies which have attempted to link the recurrence of Black Peril panics with specific disturbances in the economy or body politic, before offering symptomatic readings of two pieces of writing by George Webb Hardy, the article 'The Black Peril' (1904) and the novel The Black Peril (1912). These readings suggest that the rape threat was essentially a rationalization of white men's fear of sexual competition from black men. The imagery of purity and contagion, in terms of which the 'endogamous imperative' is typically represented in such texts, suggests that the idea of caste may usefully be invoked in attempts to explain the seemingly irrational public hysteria surrounding the Black Peril phenomenon.
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- Date Issued: 1996
- Authors: Cornwell, Gareth D N
- Date: 1996
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: vital:6116 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004240 , https://doi.org/10.1080/03057079608708504
- Description: preprint , The 'Black Peril' — the threatened rape of white women by black men — was an important factor in the moral economy underpinning colonial debate about the 'Native Question' in early twentieth-century South Africa. This essay gives sympathetic consideration to studies which have attempted to link the recurrence of Black Peril panics with specific disturbances in the economy or body politic, before offering symptomatic readings of two pieces of writing by George Webb Hardy, the article 'The Black Peril' (1904) and the novel The Black Peril (1912). These readings suggest that the rape threat was essentially a rationalization of white men's fear of sexual competition from black men. The imagery of purity and contagion, in terms of which the 'endogamous imperative' is typically represented in such texts, suggests that the idea of caste may usefully be invoked in attempts to explain the seemingly irrational public hysteria surrounding the Black Peril phenomenon.
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- Date Issued: 1996
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