De lachspiegels van Transvaal

Braakensieks prenten over de Boerenoorlog in De Amsterdammer

Abstract

The Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) resulted in a great many cultural expressions, which gained much attention of scholars. Up to now, however, political prints about the war have not been analysed extensively. Nevertheless, they are an interesting topic for literary studies. The prints that were published in De Amsterdammer by the Dutch artist Johan Coenraad Braakensiek show us to what extent the boundary line between life and narrative is blurred in literature. By considering prints as collages of words and images, as clutters of intertexts and as residues of ideologies, it is shown how they act upon a reality by which they are formed themselves.