The illustrated children's Bible as cultural text in the construction of Afrikaner national identity

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dc.contributor.advisorVan Robbroeck, Lizeen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorBarnard, Louis H.en_ZA
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Visual Arts.
dc.date.accessioned2008-06-30T10:50:48Zen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2010-06-01T08:52:54Z
dc.date.available2008-06-30T10:50:48Zen_ZA
dc.date.available2010-06-01T08:52:54Z
dc.date.issued2007-03
dc.descriptionThesis (MPhil(Visual Arts. Illustration))--Stellenbosch University, 2007.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis thesis is a critical analysis of Afrikaans illustrated children’s Bibles as cultural texts in Afrikaner nationalist discourse. Christian Calvinism was a distinct signifier in Afrikaner nationalism and served as an instrument in the construction of Afrikaner national identity. I propose in this study that Afrikaans children’s Bibles encoded the principles of Afrikaner nationalism and were used as didactic tools for the configuration of an exclusive national consciousness. A potential pitfall in the analysis of Afrikaans children’s Bibles as nationalist texts is the fact that these books were translated from Dutch or English into Afrikaans. However, the act of translating the Bible, ‘the Word of God’, into Afrikaans served to confirm the ‘totem’ of Afrikaner Christian-Nationalism. The appropriation of the Bible re-contextualized the ‘Holy Scriptures’, placing them within the milieu of Afrikaner national identity and consciousness: language and religion thus became interrelated catalysts in the social construction of Afrikaner national consciousness. Finally, my own reinvention of the Afrikaans picture Bible – in opposition to conventional illustrated children’s Bibles – is put forward and discussed as a postmodern text that encodes a radically different post-Apartheid conception of identity.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2583
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherStellenbosch : Stellenbosch Universityen_ZA
dc.rights.holderStellenbosch Universityen_ZA
dc.subjectDissertations -- Arten_ZA
dc.subjectTheses -- Arten_ZA
dc.subjectDissertations -- Visual artsen_ZA
dc.subjectTheses -- Visual artsen_ZA
dc.subjectDissertations -- Illustrationen_ZA
dc.subjectTheses -- Illustrationen_ZA
dc.subjectBible stories, Afrikaans -- Social aspects -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectBible -- Children's use -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectBible -- Illustrations -- Social aspects -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectBible -- Influence -- Modern civilizationen_ZA
dc.subjectNationalism -- South Africa -- Religious aspectsen_ZA
dc.subjectAfrikaners -- South Africa -- Ethnic identity -- Religious aspectsen_ZA
dc.titleThe illustrated children's Bible as cultural text in the construction of Afrikaner national identityen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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