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Cross-dresser as a bogey: On the gender ambiguity of Antjie Somers in South African folkloreстатья
Дата последнего поиска статьи во внешних источниках: 26 января 2022 г.
- Автор: Gorelik Boris
- Журнал: SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF CULTURAL HISTORY
- Том: 35
- Номер: 1
- Год издания: 2021
- Первая страница: 1
- Последняя страница: 19
- Аннотация: Antjie Somers, described as a cross-dressing man or a haggish woman with masculine and animalistic traits, was a bogey of South African children in the 19th–20th centuries. It is one of the few bogeys in the world that is portrayed as gender ambiguous. Given the current interest in ambiguities of gender identity and expression, the emergence of Antjie Somers as a popular and influential folklore character may be viewed in the context of transgression of cultural boundaries and its consequences. The child snatcher tales of Antjie Somers evolved from Cape ghost and robber legends as well as from European legends of the “Test of Sex: Catching an Apple” and the “Hairy-Armed Hitchhiker” types. They involve a male robber who uses female disguise to conceal his evil intentions and to lure his intended victims. Such tales employ a motif that the Khoisan and the European traditions seem to share: if children are neglected, someone childless can steal them. In Khoisan tales, the thief is a baboon who wants to bring the human child up as if it were a monkey. In European tales, it is an ogre or a hag who envies those who have and can bear children. Antjie Somers stories do not seem to demonise gender transgression. Cross-dressing is a means to the character’s criminal ends rather than a demonstration of his gender self-attribution. The gender ambiguity appears to be peripheral to the main lesson of Antjie Somers narratives: if people abuse your trust, they can abuse you.
- Добавил в систему: Горелик Борис Моисеевич