An Ecocritical Reading of Pieter Fourie's Die Koggelaar
Keuris, Marisa
Pieter Fourie’s Die Koggelaar (1988) is an important play in his oeuvre and one
which has been commented on and discussed by various theorists. Most of these
discussions focused on Boet Cronje as the protagonist of the play and foregrounded
the themes of racism, chauvinism and Afrikaner nationalism in the late eighties as
depicted in this play. In my ecocritical reading of this play I move away from a
human-centred approach and try to show rather how the characters in this play
stand in a special relationship to the Karoo landscape, animals, earth and God; i.e.
the interactions and interdependence of the various “worlds” are highlighted.
Opsomming
Pieter Fourie se Die Koggelaar (1988), is ’n belangrike drama in sy oeuvre en een
wat talle teoretici reeds geresenseer en bespreek het. Die meeste van hierdie
besprekings het gefokus op Boet Cronje as die protagonis in hierdie drama en het
hoofsaaklik die temas van rassisme, chauvinisme en Afrikanernasionalisme, soos
uitgebeeld in hierdie drama, ondersoek. In my ekokritiese lesing van die drama
beweeg ek weg van ‘n oorwegend mens-gesentreerde benadering en probeer
eerder aantoon dat die karakters in hierdie drama in ’n spesiale verhouding staan tot
die Karoo-landskap, die diere, aarde en God; m.a.w. die interaksies en interafhanklikheid
van die onderskeie “wêrelde” word uitgelig.
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