Witch Woman On The Hogsback by Carolyn Parker

Redelik onlangs het skrywers van kinderboeke in engels en die vertalers van inheemse volksverhale vir kinders begin om tradisionele oorlewerings oor bewaring en bewaringpraktyke te ondersoek.

Tot laat in die twintigste eeu het hierdie tipe tekste gewoonlik blankes se aanname onderskryf dat hulle die alleenreg op die land en sy wildlewe het. Engelstalige verhale, gedigte en prenteboeke vir kinders is beskikbaar wat die mens se interaksie met die natuur sedert vroeg in die negentiende eeu weerspieel: van jag, die rnakrnaak van die wildernis, die ontwikkeling van wetenskaplike landbou, die veranderende rolle van natuurreservate tot by die hedendaagse besorgdheid oor die hele ekologie.

Hierdie soort literatuur kan op sy beurt weer 'n bydrae maak tot die bestudering van die Suid-Afrikaanse sosiale geskiedenis en letterkunde. Historiese ondersoek van natuurbewaring en die literere kritiek van fiksie oor die natuurlike orngewing bide ons 'n paar riglyne vir die bestudering van Suid-Afrikaanse kinderliteratuur in Engels. In recent years English-language children's writers and translators of indigenous folktales for children have begun to explore traditional beliefs about and practices in conservation.Ĭhildren's literature South Africa, English environment conservation of national parksĮngelse Suid-Afrikaanse kinderliteratuur en die omgewing Until late in the twentieth century the literature usually endorsed the assumption held by whites that they had exclusive ownership of the land and wildlife. There are English-language stories, poems and picture books for children which reflect human interaction with nature in South Africa since early in the nineteenth century: from hunting, through domestication of the wilds, the development of scientific agriculture, and the changing roles of nature reserves, to modern ecological concern for the entire environment. This kind of literature, in turn, has a contribution to make to studies of South African social history and literature. Historical studies of nature conservation and literary criticism of fiction concerned with the natural environment provide some pointers for the study of South African children's literature in English.

English South African children's literature and the environment

Witch Woman On The Hogsback by Carolyn Parker