A Narrative Discourse Analysis of Herman Charles Bosmans' Short Story 'Mafeking Road' (1932)

ISBN-13: 9783640506217 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 28 str.

Hildegard Schnell

Opis

In his current popularity, Herman Charles Bosman has come to be viewed as something of an eternal artist figure, conveying marvellous home-truths for all men (Gray 1977:79). But the truth about the later Bosman is that he became a writer who had a scrupulous, instant understanding with each passing day and each yard of newspaper that underwent his professional scrutiny. Stephen Gray suggests that he [Bosman] meant himself to be taken as [ ] a commentator, a newspaper columnist, whose medium happened to be fiction thus drawing attention to the underlying truths of South Africa (ibid.). By debunking the myth of Boer bravery during the second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) in his short story Mafeking Road, Bosman touches upon a subtle theme extant amongst the Boer community, namely extreme Afrikaner patriotism (Wenzel 1999:109-110).