Spoke, liefde en geslagsgebaseerde geweld in “Die bouval op Wilgerdal”
The portrayal of gender-based violence is present in all genres of prose, including the ghost story. There is currently a lack of research regarding gender-based violence portrayed in Afrikaans ghost stories in literature as well as in film and television. Alongside the acknowledged forms of gender-...
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Published in: | Tydskrif vir letterkunde Vol. 61; no. 1; pp. 114 - 125 |
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Abstract | The portrayal of gender-based violence is present in all genres of prose, including the ghost story. There is currently a lack of research regarding gender-based violence portrayed in Afrikaans ghost stories in literature as well as in film and television. Alongside the acknowledged forms of gender-based violence (physical and non-physical abuse), I argue that an additional level of violence, namely psychic violence, is used in the ghost story to amplify the horror and impact of gender-based violence. To illustrate this psychic form of violence, I compare the portrayal of the character Emmie in the classic Afrikaans ghost story “Die bouval op Wilgerdal” (The Wilgerdal Ruins) by C. J. Langenhoven (1924) with her portrayal in the 2019 adaptation of Langenhoven’s short story for two episodes of the television series Die Spreeus (The Starlings). Emmie is haunted by both the ghost of her deceased beloved, Petrus, and the ghost of her stalker, Frans, who possessed Petrus’s body at the moment of his death. Where Emmie was moved to the background to deal with her trauma in silence and solitude in Langenhoven’s short story, she is put front and centre in Die Spreeus when her strange situation is investigated by the police as a case of domestic violence. The depiction of Emmie and this investigation casts a harsh light on the continuous plight of female victims of domestic violence, including revictimization, ongoing physical and emotional violence, victim blaming and gaslighting.
La violence sexiste est présente dans tous les genres de prose, y compris dans les histoires de fantômes. Il y a actuellement un manque de recherche sur la violence sexiste dépeinte dans les histoires de fantômes afrikaans dans la littérature ainsi qu’au cinéma et à la télévision. Outre les formes reconnues de violence sexiste (abus physiques et non physiques), je soutiens qu’un niveau de violence supplémentaire, à savoir la violence psychique, est utilisé dans les histoires de fantômes pour amplifier l’horreur et l’impact de la violence sexiste. Pour illustrer cette forme de violence psychique, je compare le portrait du personnage d’Emmie dans l’histoire de fantômes classique afrikaans « Die bouval op Wilgerdal » de C. J. Langenhoven (1924) avec son portrait dans l’adaptation en 2019 de la nouvelle de Langenhoven pour deux épisodes de la série télévisée Die Spreeus. Emmie est hantée à la fois par le fantôme de son bien-aimé décédé, Petrus, et par celui de son harceleur, Frans, qui a possédé le corps de Petrus au moment de sa mort. Alors que dans la nouvelle de Langenhoven, Emmie était reléguée à l’arrière-plan pour surmonter son traumatisme dans le silence et la solitude, elle se retrouve au premier plan dans Die Spreeus, lorsque la police enquête sur son étrange situation comme s’il s’agissait d’un cas de violence domestique. La description d’Emmie et de cette enquête jette une lumière crue sur le sort permanent des femmes victimes de violence domestique, y compris la revictimisation, la violence physique et émotionnelle permanente, la culpabilisation de la victime et la manipulation psychologique. |
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AbstractList | The portrayal of gender-based violence is present in all genres of prose, including the ghost story. There is currently a lack of research regarding gender-based violence portrayed in Afrikaans ghost stories in literature as well as in film and television. Alongside the acknowledged forms of gender-based violence (physical and non-physical abuse), I argue that an additional level of violence, namely psychic violence, is used in the ghost story to amplify the horror and impact of gender-based violence. To illustrate this psychic form of violence, I compare the portrayal of the character Emmie in the classic Afrikaans ghost story “Die bouval op Wilgerdal” (The Wilgerdal Ruins) by C. J. Langenhoven (1924) with her portrayal in the 2019 adaptation of Langenhoven’s short story for two episodes of the television series Die Spreeus (The Starlings). Emmie is haunted by both the ghost of her deceased beloved, Petrus, and the ghost of her stalker, Frans, who possessed Petrus’s body at the moment of his death. Where Emmie was moved to the background to deal with her trauma in silence and solitude in Langenhoven’s short story, she is put front and centre in Die Spreeus when her strange situation is investigated by the police as a case of domestic violence. The depiction of Emmie and this investigation casts a harsh light on the continuous plight of female victims of domestic violence, including revictimization, ongoing physical and emotional violence, victim blaming and gaslighting. The portrayal of gender-based violence is present in all genres of prose, including the ghost story. There is currently a lack of research regarding gender-based violence portrayed in Afrikaans ghost stories in literature as well as in film and television. Alongside the acknowledged forms of gender-based violence (physical and non-physical abuse), I argue that an additional level of violence, namely psychic violence, is used in the ghost story to amplify the horror and impact of gender-based violence. To illustrate this psychic form of violence, I compare the portrayal of the character Emmie in the classic Afrikaans ghost story “Die bouval op Wilgerdal” (The Wilgerdal Ruins) by C. J. Langenhoven (1924) with her portrayal in the 2019 adaptation of Langenhoven’s short story for two episodes of the television series Die Spreeus (The Starlings). Emmie is haunted by both the ghost of her deceased beloved, Petrus, and the ghost of her stalker, Frans, who possessed Petrus’s body at the moment of his death. Where Emmie was moved to the background to deal with her trauma in silence and solitude in Langenhoven’s short story, she is put front and centre in Die Spreeus when her strange situation is investigated by the police as a case of domestic violence. The depiction of Emmie and this investigation casts a harsh light on the continuous plight of female victims of domestic violence, including revictimization, ongoing physical and emotional violence, victim blaming and gaslighting. La violence sexiste est présente dans tous les genres de prose, y compris dans les histoires de fantômes. Il y a actuellement un manque de recherche sur la violence sexiste dépeinte dans les histoires de fantômes afrikaans dans la littérature ainsi qu’au cinéma et à la télévision. Outre les formes reconnues de violence sexiste (abus physiques et non physiques), je soutiens qu’un niveau de violence supplémentaire, à savoir la violence psychique, est utilisé dans les histoires de fantômes pour amplifier l’horreur et l’impact de la violence sexiste. Pour illustrer cette forme de violence psychique, je compare le portrait du personnage d’Emmie dans l’histoire de fantômes classique afrikaans « Die bouval op Wilgerdal » de C. J. Langenhoven (1924) avec son portrait dans l’adaptation en 2019 de la nouvelle de Langenhoven pour deux épisodes de la série télévisée Die Spreeus. Emmie est hantée à la fois par le fantôme de son bien-aimé décédé, Petrus, et par celui de son harceleur, Frans, qui a possédé le corps de Petrus au moment de sa mort. Alors que dans la nouvelle de Langenhoven, Emmie était reléguée à l’arrière-plan pour surmonter son traumatisme dans le silence et la solitude, elle se retrouve au premier plan dans Die Spreeus, lorsque la police enquête sur son étrange situation comme s’il s’agissait d’un cas de violence domestique. La description d’Emmie et de cette enquête jette une lumière crue sur le sort permanent des femmes victimes de violence domestique, y compris la revictimisation, la violence physique et émotionnelle permanente, la culpabilisation de la victime et la manipulation psychologique. |
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