The iconic Hector Pieterson photo and the power of adaptations
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.assaf.org.za/index.php/tvl/article/view/6134" target="_blank" >https://journals.assaf.org.za/index.php/tvl/article/view/6134</a>
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The iconic Hector Pieterson photo and the power of adaptations
Original language description
In South Africa, the iconic Hector Pieterson photo is the starting point for many artists to deal with their own personal trauma and the communal trauma of their nation. The iconicity of this photo has sparked many different adaptations in various fields of art. Considering that we are talking about a traumatized country, Freud's concept of “repetition compulsion” seems to be one explanation for this phenomenon. However, art is only seldom a mere product of traumatization. Quayson's concept of “symbolization compulsions” comes closer to explaining the phenomenon of repetition in the arts, because it leaves the artists more freedom of expression and does not suggest that art is the result of illness, while still implying 'compulsion' and 'obsession' in the act of creation. I want to suggest that 'repetition' in the arts in the South African context is not so much a sign of confinement and restriction, but that the many adaptations of the unique historical incident should rather be understood as attempts of 'working through' collective trauma, making sense of history, and contributing to the country's healing.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60206 - Specific literatures
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
ISSN
0041-476X
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
56
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
ZA - SOUTH AFRICA
Number of pages
6
Pages from-to
83-88
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85076399786