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'n Mensboom in olifantskoene : 'n postkoloniale ekokritiese analise van "Moerbeibos" (1987) en "Toorbos" (2003) deur Dalene Matthee
Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2020.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/75536 'n Mensboom in olifantskoene : 'n postkoloniale ekokritiese analise van "Moerbeibos" (1987) en "Toorbos" (2003) deur Dalene Matthee Burger, Bibi deliarabie@gmail.com Rabie, Delia UCTD Afrikaans Humanities theses SDG-10 SDG-10: Reduced inequalities Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2020. In this dissertation I analyse the last two forest novels by Dalene Matthee, namely Moerbeibos (The mulberry forest) (1987) and Toorbos (Dreamforest) (2003), from the perspectives of postcolonial ecocriticism and specifically whiteness studies. This dissertation firstly investigates the intertwined identity of human subjects in South Africa as portrayed in both novels. Furthermore, the influence of colonialism on nonhuman entities, as well as the representation of various relationships between humans and nonhuman entities, are also examined. The analysis of the connection between the oppression of a poor white, Afrikaner community, and the oppression of the nonhuman is guided by the question: How is the specifically poor white, Afrikaner community portrayed as intertwined with the nonhuman in Matthee’s last two forest novels, The mulberry forest and Dreamforest? I especially rely on theories in postcolonial ecocriticism as conceptualised by Graham Huggan, Helen Tiffin, Elizabeth DeLoughrey, George Handley and Cara Cilano. Furthermore, I also draw from Tiffany Willoughby-Herard’s work on whiteness studies, where she analyses the Carnegie Commission’s research into the so-called poor white phenomenon in South Africa. I argue that The mulberry forest portrays the human-nonhuman-relationship and emphasises the specific relationship between a poor white, Afrikaner community and the Knysna forest as an African landscape. In Dreamforest, the human-nonhuman-relationship is also portrayed, but, unlike the critical reconceptualisation of homogenous, monolithic white racial classifications portrayed in The mulberry forest, Dreamforest supports and perpetuates these racial classifications. As a result, the nonhuman in Dreamforest is not conceptualised as an entity with intrinsic value but is rather presented as an instrument in service of the poor white Afrikaner woman’s economic and social upliftment. Afrikaans: In hierdie verhandeling analiseer ek Dalene Matthee se laaste twee bosromans, Moerbeibos (1987) en Toorbos (2003), vanuit die postkoloniale ekokritiek, en meer spesifiek witheidstudies. Hierdie studie ondersoek eerstens die verwikkelde identiteit van menslike subjekte in Suid-Afrika soos uitgebeeld word in beide romans. Daarbenewens word die invloed van kolonialisme op die niemenslike, sowel as die uitbeelding van verskillende soorte verbintenisse tussen die mens en die niemenslike ondersoek. Die analise van die verbintenisse in die romans tussen die onderdrukking van die arm, wit menslike gemeenskap en die onderdrukking van die niemenslike word gerig deur die hoofnavorsingsvraag: Hoe word spesifiek die arm, wit Afrikanergemeenskap uitgebeeld as verstrengel met die niemenslike in Matthee se laaste twee bosromans, Moerbeibos en Toorbos? Ek steun veral op teorieë in die postkoloniale ekokritiek soos gekonseptualiseer deur Graham Huggan, Helen Tiffin, Elizabeth DeLoughrey, George Handley en Cara Cilano. Ek steun ook spesifiek op Tiffany Willoughby-Herard se teoretisering van witheidstudies, veral wat haar analise van die Carnegie-kommissie se ondersoek na die sogenaamde armblankevraagstuk in Suid-Afrika betref. Ek argumenteer dat beide Moerbeibos en Toorbos die verbintenis tussen die mens en die niemenslike uitbeeld, met die klem op die verbintenis tussen ʼn arm, wit Afrikanergemeenskap en die Knysnabos as Afrikalandskap. Ek voer aan dat Moerbeibos die hegemoniese siening van witheid as homogene, monolitiese rasseklassifikasie uitdaag. Hierteenoor ondersteun en hou Toorbos hierdie rasseklassifikasie in stand. Gevolglik word die niemenslike in Toorbos voorgehou as ʼn instrument tot die arm, wit Afrikanervrou se vooruitgang, eerder as ʼn entiteit met intrinsieke waarde. University of Pretoria Postgraduate bursary South African Academy for Science and Arts Afrikaans MA Unrestricted 2020-08-03T08:38:21Z 2020-08-03T08:38:21Z 2020-09 2020-08 Dissertation Rabie, D 2020, 'n Mensboom in olifantskoene: 'n postkoloniale ekokritiese analise van "Moerbeibos" (1987) en "Toorbos" (2003) deur Dalene Matthee, MA Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/75536> S2020 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/75536 Afrikaans © 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Afrikaans Humanities theses SDG-10 SDG-10: Reduced inequalities 'n Mensboom in olifantskoene : 'n postkoloniale ekokritiese analise van "Moerbeibos" (1987) en "Toorbos" (2003) deur Dalene Matthee |
| title | 'n Mensboom in olifantskoene : 'n postkoloniale ekokritiese analise van "Moerbeibos" (1987) en "Toorbos" (2003) deur Dalene Matthee |
| title_full | 'n Mensboom in olifantskoene : 'n postkoloniale ekokritiese analise van "Moerbeibos" (1987) en "Toorbos" (2003) deur Dalene Matthee |
| title_fullStr | 'n Mensboom in olifantskoene : 'n postkoloniale ekokritiese analise van "Moerbeibos" (1987) en "Toorbos" (2003) deur Dalene Matthee |
| title_full_unstemmed | 'n Mensboom in olifantskoene : 'n postkoloniale ekokritiese analise van "Moerbeibos" (1987) en "Toorbos" (2003) deur Dalene Matthee |
| title_short | 'n Mensboom in olifantskoene : 'n postkoloniale ekokritiese analise van "Moerbeibos" (1987) en "Toorbos" (2003) deur Dalene Matthee |
| title_sort | n mensboom in olifantskoene n postkoloniale ekokritiese analise van moerbeibos 1987 en toorbos 2003 deur dalene matthee |
| topic | UCTD Afrikaans Humanities theses SDG-10 SDG-10: Reduced inequalities |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/75536 |