The Oral-Style South African Short Story in English. A.W. Drayson to H.C. Bosman. - MacKENZIE, CRAIG
A. W. Drayson to H. C. Bosman
KORTE INHOUD
This study deals with a particular kind of short story in South African English literature - a kind of story variously called the fireside tale, tall tale, skaz narrative or (the term used here) the 'oral-style' story. Most famously exemplified in the Oom Schalk Lourens narratives of Herman Charles Bosman, the oral-style story has its roots in the hunting tale and camp-fire yarn of the nineteenth century and has dozens of exponents in South African literature, most of them long forgotten. Here this neglect has been addressed. A.W. Drayson's Tales at the Outspan (1862) provides a point of departure, and is followed by discussions of works by William Charles Scully, Percy FitzPatrick, Ernest Glanville, Perceval Gibbon, Francis Carey Slater, Pauline Smith, and Aegidius Jean Blignaut, all of whom used the oral-style story genre. In the work of Herman Charles Bosman, however, the South African oral-style story comes into its own. In his Oom Schalk Lourens figure is invested all of the complexity and 'double-voiced...
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Original publishers sewn paperback, pictorial frontcover, large 8vo: x, 224pp., 10 contributions, footnotes/bibliographical notes, conclusion, works cited, index. Very fine copy - as new. Volume 37: Cross/Cultures. Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English. Amsterdam-Atlanta, Rodopi. 1999 [Auteur: MacKENZIE, CRAIG] [Jaar: 1999] [Titel: The Oral-Style South African Short Story in English. A.W. Drayson to H.C. Bosman.]
