David Stuurman: “last chief of the Hottentots”

Malherbe, V. C.

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“…The reorientation provided by a southern archive could shift the focus of studies of penal and convict literatures away from Dickens's antipodean convict returnee, Magwitch, to a consideration of Southan's Two Lawyers, Caroline Leakey's The Broad Arrow (1859), Marcus Clarke's His Natural Life (1870-1872), Samuel Butler's Erewhon (1872), and the petitions of convicts and political prisoners from Robben Island to Norfolk Island to Botany Bay. Taking into account southern carceral geographies could also emphasize, for instance, the literary circuity that forms around a figure such as the Khoi leader David Stuurman, who was imprisoned in Robben Island, transported to Botany Bay, and inspired the petitionary efforts of Thomas Pringle and Saxe Bannister, as well as Clarke's article "Stuurman-Brothers, Patriots, and Hottentots" in the Sydney Morning Herald in 1879 (Anderson, 2016c;Harman, 2012;Malherbe, 1980).…”

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Rethinking nineteenth-century literary culture: British worlds, southern latitudes and hemispheric methods

Comyn

Fermanis

2021

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

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Drawing on hemispheric, oceanic, and southern theory approaches, this article argues for the value of considering the nineteenth-century literary cultures of the southern settler colonies of Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa from within an interconnected frame of analysis. First, because of their distinctive historical and structural conditions; second, because of the density of their interregional networks and relations across intersecting oceanic spaces; and third, because of the long history of racialized imperialist imaginaries of the south. This methodological position rethinks current approaches to “British world” studies in two important ways: first, by decoupling the southern settler colonies from studies of settler colonialism in North America; and second, by rebalancing its metropolitan and northern locus by considering south-south networks and relations across a complex of southern islands, oceans, and continents. Without suggesting either that imperial intercultural exchanges with Britain are unimportant or that there is a culturally homogenous body of pan-southern writing, we argue that nineteenth-century literary culture from colonial Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa — what we call a “southern archive” — can provide a counterbalance to northern biases and provide new purchase on nation-centred literary paradigms — one that reveals not just south-south transnational exchanges and structural homologies between southern genres, themes, and forms, but also allows us to acknowledge the important challenges to foundational accounts of national literary canons initiated by southern theory and Indigenous studies scholars.

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Section: Towards a Southern Archivementioning

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Rethinking nineteenth-century literary culture: British worlds, southern latitudes and hemispheric methods

Comyn

Fermanis

2021

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

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“…87 Further, the Khoe leader of the third war, and a recent escapee from Robben Island, David Stuurman, was present, as was another prominent figure named Antonie, who was later associated with the imiDange chief Krata. 88 By the start of January 1812, Graham despaired at not having enough men to clear the Zuurberg mountains and had to secure an additional two hundred troops from Cape Town. 89 Graham believed Chief Habana was at the centre of continuing resistance.…”

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Resistance and survival: Demolishing myths of disappearing people, minor chiefs and non-existent boundaries in the early 19th century Zuurveld of the Cape Colony

Wells

2020

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Starting with fragments of information from the archives about a rebellious young man designated a “Ghona [Xhosa]” in 1820, the study constructed a plausible biography to be used in a dance performance. This uncovered several myths and omissions in historical writings about the western part of the historic “Zuurveld” area of today’s Eastern Cape. While many writers pronounced the Gonaqua to have disappeared from about 1750, they remained visible as a special category of versatile and innovative people at least through the 1850s. The imiDange Xhosa chiefs of this era were in the forefront of defending African interests against colonial encroachment, as occupants over a fifty-year period of the land north, south and west of the Fish River. The geographical location of the imiDange meant their fate was intimately linked to the colonial designation of the Fish River as a boundary between white and black. Their consistent role as resisters has been marginalised in historical writing, especially the strong defence they made in the Zuurberg mountains in the war of 1812. They challenged colonial practices not only militarily but also by trying to define the terms and conditions of labour relations. The disregard of boundaries reveals the complex dynamics of the contested frontier zone of encounter between Europeans and Africans prior to the defeat of the amaXhosa in late 1819. The study demonstrates the gains made by asking personal questions about marginal historic figures.

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“…Research across imperial and colonial networks revealed the diversity of the convict population (Curthoys 2002:146). It became evident that rather than solely comprising white people, Australia's penal settlements had also been populated by numerous people of colour transported to the Australian penal settlements from places as diverse as the Cape Colony, Corfu, Bermuda, India, New Zealand and China (Nichols and Shergold 1988:32, 36; see also Duffield 1985Duffield , 1986Duffield , 1987Duffield , 1999aDuffield , 1999bDuly 1979:39;Malherbe 1980Malherbe , 1985Malherbe , 2001Malherbe , 2002aMalherbe , 2002bPybus 2006). While the newly emerging transnational histories of transportation shed light on the nascent multiculturalism apparent in the Australian penal colonies, one small yet highly significant cohort of convicts continued to be overlooked.…”

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‘The Art of Cutting Stone’: Aboriginal convict labour in nineteenth-century New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land

Harman¹

2012

Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies II: Historical Engagements and Current Enterprises

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David Stuurman: “last chief of the Hottentots”

Cited by 22 publications

References 3 publications

Rethinking nineteenth-century literary culture: British worlds, southern latitudes and hemispheric methods

Rethinking nineteenth-century literary culture: British worlds, southern latitudes and hemispheric methods

Resistance and survival: Demolishing myths of disappearing people, minor chiefs and non-existent boundaries in the early 19th century Zuurveld of the Cape Colony

‘The Art of Cutting Stone’: Aboriginal convict labour in nineteenth-century New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land

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