remembering, forgetting and forgiving in Should We Forget?
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- T.N&A : tijdskrif vir Nederlands en Afrikaans
- Magazine Year
- 2002
- Magazine Number
- 1
- Creator
- Stanley, Liz
- Thesaurus
- oorlog en vrede, tekstanalyse, ethiek, nationalisme, etnische minderheidsgroepen, Zuid-Afrika
- Description
- A large number of Boer women's testimonies were composed during and after the South African War 1899-1902. Two key assumptions were shared: that moral right lies with the writer and those she represents and all moral wrong with those she identifies as wrong-doers: and that there is a directly referential relationship between the text and the facticity of the events it attests to. It explores features of women's testimonial writing which lent themselves to a nationalist interpretation in South Africa focusing on the treatment of 'race' in a re-reading of 'Should we forget?' by Mrs Neethling (1903). This was the first testimonial account by a South African woman to be published in book form post-war.