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Die bladsy is laas op 19 November 2019 om 05:35 bygewerk. Reviews | Justin Fox
Review of ‘Whoever Fears the Sea’ in Rapport newspaper
Whoever Fears the Sea, deur ­Justin Fox
Resensent: Johann Lodewyk Marais
Die oplewing van reisliteratuur is ’n opvallende verskynsel die afgelope jare in Suid-Afrikaanse literatuur. Hiertoe het die Suid-Afrikaanse reisskrywer, prosaïs en fotograaf Justin Fox ’n groot bydrae gelewer.
Soos heelparty ander skrywers dra hy daartoe by om die leser aan fasette van die lewe in Afrika bekend te stel.
Daar was groot verwagtinge oor die verskyning van Fox se eerste roman, Whoever Fears the Sea.
Op die voorblad verskyn ’n aanprysing van die Suid-Afrikaanse Nobelpryswenner J.M. Coezee waarin hy klem lê op die romantiese en avontuurlike in die werk, asook die ernstige herbesinning oor hedendaagse Somaliese seerowery. Die roman beloof as’t ware ’n kombinasie van populêre fiksie en perspektiewe op maatskaplik-politieke kwessies langs die ooskus van Afrika.
Die storie handel oor die Suid-Afrikaanse teksskrywer Paul Waterson, met ’n belangstelling in geskiedenis, wat opdrag kry om navorsing vir ’n National Geographic-fliek oor Kenia te gaan doen.
Waterson se verhouding het kort voor sy vertrek in Oktober 2001 op die rotse geloop. In die naweë van die 9/11-aanval in Amerika bevind hy hom ná avontuurlike reise per bus en op ’n dau (Arabiese skip) in Mombasa, Malindi en die Lamu-argipel waar die oorlog teen terreur veral die Moslem-gemeenskap in beroering het.
Met sy vermoë om hom van jongs af na ander tye en plekke te verplaas, is Waterson ’n gevoelige waarnemer van die plekke en tydsgewrig waarin hy hom bevind, en word ruim en gemaklik gebruik gemaak van onder meer inligting wat ook uit reistekste sou kon kom of daarin sou kon tuishoort.
Waterson se kennis van die ryk maritieme geskiedenis van die Swahili-kus laat hom tewens ’n bykans obsessiewe belangstelling in die mtepe-dau langs die Somaliese kus ontwikkel. Op die spoor van hierdie legendariese vaartuig word Waterson se besoek aan Somalië, met sy politieke onrus, ’n groot uitdaging.
Wanneer Waterson eindelik geleentheid kry om al varend met Somaliese seerowers kennis maak, kry hy beter begrip vir die redes vir hul optrede wat uit kolonialisme en die stroping van hul hulpbronne deur buitelanders sou spruit. Hierdie perspektief word breedweg binne die konteks van die redes vir die 9/11-aanval geplaas en Waterson tree as ’n spreekbuis vir hierdie sentimente op.
Whoever Fears the Sea kan op verskillende maniere gelees word. Vir lesers op soek na ontspanningsliteratuur is dit ’n meesleurende roman met, ja, baie avontuur en seks. Vir die lesers wat belangstel in Oos-Afrika bied die roman egter veel meer. Met sy kennis van talle fasette van die bestaan langs die Keniaanse kus, slaag Fox daarin om die leser ’n goeie beeld van onlangse kwessies en woelinge daar te gee. In die lig van die voortslepende krisis in Somalië, seerowery en die uitkringende uitwerking van die probleme op veral Kenia, word die lees van die roman ’n verrykende ervaring.
Dr. Johann Lodewyk Marais is ’n skrywer en letterkundige.
by justinfoxafrica on May 26, 2014 • Permalink
Posted by justinfoxafrica on May 26, 2014
Podcast: ‘Whoever Fears the Sea’
A podcast interview with Justin Fox by Michele Magwood:
by justinfoxafrica on April 29, 2014 • Permalink
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Review of ‘Whoever Fears the Sea’ in the Atlantic Sun
by justinfoxafrica on March 23, 2014 • Image • Permalink
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Review of ‘Whoever Fears the Sea’ in the Weekend Argus
‘Whoever Fears the Sea’ review by Brian Joss in the Atlantic Sun
by justinfoxafrica on March 21, 2014 • Image • Permalink
Posted by justinfoxafrica on March 21, 2014
A friend recently revealed to me that she has stopped reading fiction – that, as she sees it, life is too short for novels. At the time I met her confession with silence. What I should have said is that the best fiction teaches us about the world, it shows us how to be in the world, and it offers us different ways of understanding the world. Justin Fox’s first novel is a fine example of the possibilities of fiction.
In Whoever Fears the Sea, Paul Waterson travels to Kenya to develop a script for a documentary about the Swahili coast, provisionally titled People of the Monsoon. The ending of his relationship with his New York girlfriend, has left him reeling and, thus, a perfect victim for the sea’s sirenic lure. His initial plan is to explore the Lamu Archipelago – a group of islands off the coast of northern Kenya – where dhows are still used as the main form of transport. But as he travels through Nairobi, Mombasa, Malindi, and on to Lamu, Waterson becomes consumed with finding what is rumoured to be the last remaining mtepe dhow – a craft stitched together with thread, rather than built with nails – an obsession that takes him closer and closer to Somali waters.
Fox has set the book shortly after the September 11 attacks and, in doing so, he considers the historical conflict between Islam and Christianity, between East and West, and the longstanding effects of colonialism on Africa’s coastline. Setting this scene of tension is crucial for the denouement, in which we are offered an alternative reading of modern-day Somali piracy, predicated upon East Africa’s rich maritime history – a tradition of sailing that dates back over 2000 years.
This may be his debut novel, but Fox is a master travel writer: he is the former editor of Getaway magazine and the author of close to a dozen non-fiction titles. Whoever Fears the Sea comes, therefore, out of his many years of travelling and documenting. His fiction, like his non-fiction, is lucid, graceful, and stowed with facts. More concretely, his novel developed out of two trips Fox took to Lamu for Getaway, in 2001 and 2006. If the dialogue seems precise, then, it is because it is likely that many of the conversations in the book took place; if the encounters seem real, it is because they probably happened.
Bobbing up between passages of historical and geographical detail are levity and humour. When Waterson encounters Dalila Kariuki, a nineteen-year-old Kikuyu from Nairobi, Fox writes: “He was caught between a neo-colonial rock and a hard-on.”
Whoever Fears the Sea may be, as JM Coetzee says in his cover shout, “full of sex and action”, but it is what Coetzee calls the book’s “revisionist message” that really makes us pay attention. In a variation on the terrorist-or-freedom fighter paradox, Fox offers us a different way of understanding modern-day Somali piracy, built upon its beginnings as a means of defence against over-fishing by western trawlers and the illegal dumping of toxic waste. He allows us to see, however briefly, pirates as guardians of the coast and not as desperate criminals.
Fox is one of South Africa’s finest writers of non-fiction outside of the dreary, pervasive realm of political writing. If he continues to write novels, one suspects he’ll soon be lapping at the sides of the international fiction scene.
by justinfoxafrica on March 19, 2014 • Permalink
Posted by justinfoxafrica on March 19, 2014
Review of Justin’s latest e-book
Book review of Unspotted (Mampoer Publishers, 2013)
by justinfoxafrica on May 8, 2013 • Permalink
Posted by justinfoxafrica on May 8, 2013