Graduation Year
2018
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
English
Reader 1
Michelle Decker
Reader 2
Aaron Matz
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Abstract
This thesis explores what the role of the artist provides to the colonial novel. Using William Plomer's novel Turbott Wolfe, the role of the Western artist in colonial South Africa is examined and critiqued, putting it in conversation with the art theory of Roger Fry and the Primitivism movement. In doing so, it explores themes such as desire, miscegenation, complexity, and carnival, showing that while artists partake in society, they also remain critical of it, responding to it in their artwork.
Recommended Citation
Bazlen, Chloe, "Depictions of the Western Artist in Colonial South Africa: Turbott Wolfe" (2018). Scripps Senior Theses. 1127.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1127
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