Summary

Pieter Fourie's Die Koggelaar (1988) is an important play in his oeuvre and one which has been commented on and discussed by various theorists. Most of these discussions focused on Boet Cronje as the protagonist of the play and foregrounded the themes of racism, chauvinism and Afrikaner nationalism in the late eighties as depicted in this play. In my ecocritical reading of this play I move away from a human-centred approach and try to show rather how the characters in this play stand in a special relationship to the Karoo landscape, animals, earth and God; i.e. the interactions and interdependence of the various "worlds" are highlighted.

Opsomming

Pieter ...