Reworkings of an Icon: Hector Pieterson, Intermedial Adaptations, and Transmedial Narratives

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Reworkings of an Icon: Hector Pieterson, Intermedial Adaptations, and Transmedial Narratives

Original language description

This paper will trace the phenomenon of repetition in the arts not only through various visual media but also through literature. In South Africa, the iconic Hector Pieterson photo is the starting point for many artists to deal with their personal trauma and the communal trauma of their nation. The iconicity of this photo has sparked many different adaptations, and its repercussions can still be felt today. I want to suggest that repetition in the arts in a South African context is not so much a sign of confinement and restriction, but that the many intermedial adaptations of the iconic Hector Pieterson photo can be understood as attempts at working through collective trauma. In their entirety, these intermedial adaptations “re-late” South African history in a new way. They create a transmedial narrative that speaks of South Africa’s unfinished past and tries to make new sense of history. In this context, literature plays a special role. Mzamane’s novel The Children of Soweto from 1982 stands out as a strange attempt to go against the grain in history, by writing against a well-established historical truth and even of falsifying history. The novel challenges the “truth” of the iconic Hector Pieterson photo and replaces it with a different concept of truth that creates historical facts in its own literary way but, nevertheless, lays claim to authenticity

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60206 - Specific literatures

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Literature and Media: Productive Intersections

ISBN

978-3-631-81556-4

Number of pages of the result

17

Pages from-to

45-61

Number of pages of the book

219

Publisher name

Peter Lang GmbH

Place of publication

Berlin

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