'A glimpse into Bushman mythology': interpretation, power and knowledge

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dc.contributor.authorWessels, Michael A.
dc.date.accessioned17/05/2017 09:24
dc.date.available17/05/2017 09:24
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractIn 1873, Qing, a young man of Bushman background, recounted a cycle of stories and commented on some of the rock paintings he and the magistrate Joseph Orpen saw on a journey through the Maloti mountains. A year later Qing's narratives and comments on rock art, as recorded by Orpen, were published along with Orpen's account of the journey in an article in The Cape Monthly Magazine. The article is a blend of European and indigenous discourses and forms of knowledge, the latter mediated by the processes of recording, translation, writing and publication. This essay explores the different sorts of knowledge that are represented in the text, in Orpen's statements about his research and in Qing's stories in particular. It uses the literary technique of close reading in order to open the text up to different possibilities of reading and interpretation.en_US
dc.description.accreditationScopusen_US
dc.identifier.citationWessels, M. A. (2016). 'A glimpse into Bushman mythology': interpretation, power and knowledge. Critical Arts, 30(6): 898-914en_US
dc.identifier.issn0256-0046
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/2848
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2016.1269816
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.rightsThis is the author-version of the article published online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2016.1269816
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectBushmanen_US
dc.subjectColonialismen_US
dc.subjectIndigeneityen_US
dc.subjectInterpretationen_US
dc.subjectKnowledgeen_US
dc.subjectNarrativeen_US
dc.subjectRock arten_US
dc.title'A glimpse into Bushman mythology': interpretation, power and knowledgeen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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