Browsing Faculty of Arts by Subject "Satire"
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The Boer and the jackal: Satire and resistance in Khoi orature
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)Bushman narratives have been the subject of a large volume of scholarly and popular studies, particularly publications that have engaged with the Bleek and Lloyd archive. Khoi story-telling has attracted much less attention. ... -
Laughing with Sam Sly: The cultural politics of satire and colonial British identity in the Cape Colony, c. 1840-1850
(Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2010)This article examines Sam Sly’s African Journal (1843–51), a literary and satirical newspaper published by William Layton Sammons in Cape Town. It contends that the newspaper utilised satire to forge British cultural ...