Dina's story : a visual intervention in fathoming history

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dc.contributor.advisorRijsdijk, Ian-Malcolmen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorCorns, Donnaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-25T11:33:59Z
dc.date.available2016-07-25T11:33:59Z
dc.date.issued2016en_ZA
dc.description.abstractA two-part dissertation including a research essay and script for a historical feature film as a work of creative non-fiction. The first 40 pages comprise the research essay discussing archival research methods and narrative strategies employed in the creative production. The script, Dina the runaway, is based on a reading of official records of a criminal case from the Court of Justice in Cape of Good Hope 1737. The intention of the creative reworking is to revivify a historical event hitherto imprisoned in archaic language, providing proximity through visual language to make it speak more directly to the present. Despite efforts of contemporary historians, slavery as part of South African historical consciousness is seldom foregrounded. There is no surviving 'slave voice' - the only way enslaved people 'made it' into history was through transgression, they were essentially criminalised by history. Dina's story and her telling of it serves as an imaginative empathetic intervention in historical transmission. Research methods of reading along and across the archival grain expose power dynamics in linguistic transactions and discrepancies in the records. The script is a creative treatment of 'historical reality,' thereby subverting the generic dichotomy of the historical fiction film and documentary. The essay and script occupy the uncomfortable space of a double consciousness in which the creative and analytic do not so much compete as attempt to coexist.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationCorns, D. (2016). <i>Dina's story : a visual intervention in fathoming history</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Film and Media Studies. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20717en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationCorns, Donna. <i>"Dina's story : a visual intervention in fathoming history."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Film and Media Studies, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20717en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationCorns, D. 2016. Dina's story : a visual intervention in fathoming history. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Corns, Donna AB - A two-part dissertation including a research essay and script for a historical feature film as a work of creative non-fiction. The first 40 pages comprise the research essay discussing archival research methods and narrative strategies employed in the creative production. The script, Dina the runaway, is based on a reading of official records of a criminal case from the Court of Justice in Cape of Good Hope 1737. The intention of the creative reworking is to revivify a historical event hitherto imprisoned in archaic language, providing proximity through visual language to make it speak more directly to the present. Despite efforts of contemporary historians, slavery as part of South African historical consciousness is seldom foregrounded. There is no surviving 'slave voice' - the only way enslaved people 'made it' into history was through transgression, they were essentially criminalised by history. Dina's story and her telling of it serves as an imaginative empathetic intervention in historical transmission. Research methods of reading along and across the archival grain expose power dynamics in linguistic transactions and discrepancies in the records. The script is a creative treatment of 'historical reality,' thereby subverting the generic dichotomy of the historical fiction film and documentary. The essay and script occupy the uncomfortable space of a double consciousness in which the creative and analytic do not so much compete as attempt to coexist. DA - 2016 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2016 T1 - Dina's story : a visual intervention in fathoming history TI - Dina's story : a visual intervention in fathoming history UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20717 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/20717
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationCorns D. Dina's story : a visual intervention in fathoming history. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Film and Media Studies, 2016 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20717en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentCentre for Film and Media Studiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherDocumentary Artsen_ZA
dc.titleDina's story : a visual intervention in fathoming historyen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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