Once there was a war: Conference on the South African War in fiction

Text of the papers delivered at the Conference

 

Carrying the Torch: Dorothea Fairbridge and the Cape Loyalist Imagination
Peter Merrington, Department of English, University of the Western Cape, Bellville

The Imperial adventure story and critiques of Empire: the case of Bertram Mitford
Mike Lieven, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

The South African War: occassion and event in Afrikaans theatre
Dr Johan Coetser, University of South Africa

Revenge of the novel: Christoffel Coetzee’s subversion of history’s claim to authority in the Anglo-Boer War discourse.

Dr Lizé Kriel, Department of Historical and Heritage Studies, University of Pretoria

Flight for freedom: Kotie Steenkamp's story of the South African War
Marié Coetzee, Archives & Special Collection, Unisa Library, University of South Africa

Suid-Afrika – "die hartlik bekende grond". Nasionale identiteit en Poolse jeugliteratuur in die Suid-Afrikaanse literêre ruimte
Pawel Zajas, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland

Hoe Bruin was die Wind?: Bruin genoeg om die verhaal van Jacoba Afrikaner te stuit?
Maretha Maartens


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