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本文以Thomas Pringle的《非洲素描》中的Makanna、“丛林人”、vytj Vaal、Hinza Marossi、Arend Plessis和Johannes van der Kemp为重点,追溯了他们在Matthew Shum的《帝国即兴创作:Thomas Pringle在苏格兰、开普殖民地和伦敦,1789-1834》和Zoë Wicomb的《静物》中的重塑。这些数据构成了有趣的伙伴。当Makanna和“布须曼人”抵制殖民统治并谴责基督教信仰的虚伪时,vytj Vaal和Hinza Marossi分别作为Khoikhoi仆人和被收养的Motswana男孩被同化到殖民秩序中。年轻的布尔叛变者阿伦特·普莱西斯(Arend Plessis)与一名科伊科伊侍女私奔,范德肯普的传教工作为普林格尔的殖民定位提供了有益的视角。
Ghosts of Books: Rereading Thomas Pringle’s African Sketches, with Matthew Shum’s Improvisations of Empire and Zoë Wicomb’s Still Life
Focusing on the figures of Makanna, the ‘Bushman’, Vytjé Vaal, Hinza Marossi, Arend Plessis, and Johannes van der Kemp in Thomas Pringle’s African Sketches, the paper traces their refiguration in Matthew Shum’s Improvisations of Empire: Thomas Pringle in Scotland, the Cape Colony and London, 1789–1834 and Zoë Wicomb’s Still Life. The figures make interesting company. While Makanna and the ‘Bushman’ resist colonial rule and denounce the hypocrisy of the Christian faith by which this rule was justified, Vytjé Vaal and Hinza Marossi are assimilated into the colonial order as Khoikhoi servant and adopted Motswana boy, respectively. The young renegade Boer, Arend Plessis, elopes with a Khoikhoi servant girl, and Van der Kemp’s missionary work offers an instructive perspective on Pringle’s colonial positioning.
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Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa is published bi-annually by Routledge. Current Writing focuses on recent writing and re-publication of texts on southern African and (from a ''southern'' perspective) commonwealth and/or postcolonial literature and literary-culture. Works of the past and near-past must be assessed and evaluated through the lens of current reception. Submissions are double-blind peer-reviewed by at least two referees of international stature in the field. The journal is accredited with the South African Department of Higher Education and Training.