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Rivers, Politics, and Ecology in Jacklyn Cock’s Writing the Ancestral River and Dominique Botha’s False River
English Academy Review ( IF 0.4 ) Pub Date : 2020-07-02 , DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2020.1832791
Gail Fincham 1
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Abstract Tracing the history of the Kowie River in the Eastern Cape, Jacklyn Cock writes: “For me, the Kowie … connects a personal and a collective history, the social and the ecological, the sacred and the profane” (Writing the Ancestral River. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2018, p. 4). She goes on to detail the initiation and induction practices of the Xhosa people indigenous to the Kowie, and then the historical dispossession of these people after the Battle of Grahamstown in 1819. The colonial construction of a harbour in 1838 was, much later, followed by the capitalist development of a marina in 1989. These “developments” caused both ecological damage to the Kowie and economic devastation for the Xhosa. In this article, Cock’s book is juxtaposed against another river-based text, Dominique Botha’s debut novel False River (Cape Town: Umuzi, 2013), which centres on the farm Rietpan in what was formerly the Orange Free State. Because water is so scarce in South Africa, rivers are divided and violently contested. Botha’s text shares with Cock’s book not only a history of colonialism in which indigenous people are dispossessed, but also an ecological vision that offers social solutions to this violence. Cock writes: “Perhaps we can connect with our very different histories through our ancestors, and with nature and justice through rivers” (144–45).

中文翻译:

Jacklyn Cock 写祖传河和多米尼克·博塔 (Dominique Botha) 的假河中的河流、政治和生态

摘要追溯东开普省科伊河的历史,杰克林·科克写道:“对我来说,科伊河……将个人和集体的历史、社会和生态、神圣和世俗联系起来”(写祖河。约翰内斯堡:Wits 大学出版社,2018 年,第 4 页)。她继续详细介绍了科伊土著科萨人的启蒙和入职实践,以及这些人在 1819 年格雷厄姆斯敦战役后被剥夺的历史。1838 年的殖民地建设港口,随后是1989 年资本主义发展了一个码头。这些“发展”既对科伊河造成了生态破坏,又对科萨造成了经济破坏。在本文中,Cock 的书与另一本基于河流的文本并列,Dominique Botha 的处女作 False River(开普敦:Umuzi,2013 年),其中心是以前的奥兰治自由州的 Rietpan 农场。由于南非的水资源非常稀缺,河流被分割开来,并且争夺激烈。博塔的文字与科克的书不仅分享了土著人民被剥夺的殖民主义历史,而且还分享了为这种暴力提供社会解决方案的生态愿景。科克写道:“也许我们可以通过我们的祖先了解我们截然不同的历史,并通过河流与自然和正义联系起来”(144-45)。也是一种生态愿景,为这种暴力行为提供社会解决方案。科克写道:“也许我们可以通过我们的祖先了解我们截然不同的历史,并通过河流与自然和正义联系起来”(144-45)。也是一种生态愿景,为这种暴力行为提供社会解决方案。科克写道:“也许我们可以通过我们的祖先与我们截然不同的历史联系起来,并通过河流与自然和正义联系起来”(144-45)。
更新日期:2020-07-02
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