Afrikaans Working-Class Drama in the Early 1940s: Socialist Realism in Die Offerande by Hester Cornelius

IF 0.4 3区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Malgorzata N. Drwal
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ABSTRACT This paper discusses the drama Die Offerande [‘The Sacrifice’] (1941) by Hester Cornelius, in which the Soviet aesthetic of socialist realism was grafted onto an Afrikaner cultural setting. To outline the context in which the play was created and performed, this contribution elaborates on the representation of Soviet socialism in the South African trade union periodical Klerewerker/Garment Worker, where the play was published. It aims to demonstrate that this propaganda play renders the socialist realist principle of narodnost (i. e. inclusion of a national folk element) by incorporating motifs characteristic of the Afrikaans farm novel, references to the historical events on which the Afrikanerdom founding myth is based, and characters representing 'typical' Afrikaners. Moreover, this article argues that the play’s plot is reminiscent of the socialist realist novel master plot which illustrates the protagonist’s transition from political immaturity to political awareness and his becoming the New Man. The important modification which Cornelius introduced was that she cast women in the main roles, so her play propagates the working-class New Woman.
20世纪40年代早期的南非荷兰工人阶级戏剧:海丝特·科尼利厄斯《被诅咒的人》中的社会主义现实主义
本文讨论海丝特·科尼利厄斯的戏剧《牺牲》(1941),其中苏联社会主义现实主义美学被嫁接到阿非利卡文化背景中。为了概述该剧创作和演出的背景,本文详细阐述了该剧在南非工会期刊《制衣工人》(kleerewerker /Garment Worker)上对苏联社会主义的表现。它旨在通过结合南非荷兰语农场小说的主题特征,参考南非荷兰语建国神话所依据的历史事件,以及代表“典型”南非荷兰人的人物,来证明这一宣传剧呈现了社会主义现实主义的民粹化原则(即包含民族民间元素)。此外,本文认为该剧的情节令人联想到社会主义现实主义小说的主情节,表现了主人公从政治不成熟到政治意识的转变,并成为新人。科尼利厄斯引入的重要修改是让女性担任主要角色,因此她的戏剧传播了工人阶级的新女性。
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