Maricel Botha
List of John Benjamins publications in which Maricel Botha is involved.
Articles
2026 Art reception as nationalist meaning-making: Pierneef and the discursive construction of an “Ethnoscape” in the Afrikaner press (1912–1938) Journal of Language and Politics: Online-First Articles | Article
This research examines the reception of J. H. Pierneef’s art in Afrikaner press articles between 1912 and 1938 to shed light on the interpretation of his depictions of the South African landscape as social and political symbols of identity and entitlement amid emergent Afrikaner nationalism. The… read more
2023 Chapter 7. Nollywood and indigenous language translation flows: A systems perspective Translation Flows: Exploring networks of people, processes and products, Feinauer, Ilse, Amanda Marais and Marius Swart (eds.), pp. 129–148 | Chapter
Africa’s multiplicity of languages has seen little manifestation in large-scale translation flows of the indigenous African languages in the post-independence period, largely because of the hegemony of ex-colonial languages. Against this background, Nollywood’s stimulation of translation from… read more
2019 Chapter 11. Translation tradition throughout South African history A World Atlas of Translation, Gambier, Yves and Ubaldo Stecconi (eds.), pp. 243–270 | Chapter
In this report South African translation history is approached from the perspective of asymmetrical power relations with a view to revealing various functions and conceptualisations of translation throughout the country’s notoriously turbulent past. Translation is viewed in a reciprocal… read more