TY - JOUR AU - Willemse, Hein PY - 2010/09/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Aantekeninge by drie klein geskiedenisse JF - Tydskrif vir Letterkunde JA - Tydskr Letterkd VL - 47 IS - 2 SE - Review articles DO - 10.17159/tl.v47i2.3093 UR - https://letterkunde.africa/article/view/3093 SP - 150-165 AB - <p>The reviewer identifies three disparate texts, <em>Koos Malgas Sculptor of the Owl House</em> (Julia Malgas and Jeni Couzyn, 2008), The&nbsp;<em>Black Countess</em> (R. E. van der Ross, 2008) and <em>Die verhaal van Elandskloof</em> (“The Story of Elandskloof”, Tobie Wiese assisted by Ricky Goedeman, 2009) as counter-discursive texts writtten against specific hegemonic practices. The first text presents a reevaluation of the contribution of Koos Malgas to the famous Outsider Art place, The Owl House in Nieu Bethesda; the second is a short biography on the black countess, Martha Grey and the third is a lay history of a Dutch Reformed Church mission station, Elandskloof. The writer discusses the obvious similarities between these texts such as the co-operation between authors, the margin as a site of resistance, the fragmented documentation of marginalised lives, the formation and re-formation of identities and the tensions around expressions of ‘truth’.&nbsp;</p> ER -