The Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Eole and its historical and cultural significance for modern South Africa (REF2014).

David John Culpin (Participant)

School of Modern Languages

Impact: Cultural, Creative Impact

Narrative

This research has had a significant influence on: (1) cultural life, through a major exhibition at the National Library in Cape Town and promotion of forgotten French cultural heritage in the Cape; (2) civic life and public discourse, through a major series of talks, as keynote speaker at a public event organized by the National Library of South Africa (NLSA) focused on cultural memory, commemoration and reconciliation, press coverage and radio broadcasts in the UK and South Africa; (3) education, through visits to secondary schools; and (4) economic prosperity, through the promotion of tourism in the Eastern Cape of South Africa.

Impact status	Open
Category of impact	Cultural, Creative Impact

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REF2014 case study

Related content

Research output
C.E. Boniface, Relation du naufrage du navire français L’Eole, sur la côte de la Caffrerie en avril 1829.: Texte édité avec Introduction et Notes par D.J. Culpin.
Research output: Book/Report › Scholarly edition
C.E. Boniface, Narrative of the Shipwreck of the French vessel The Eole, on the coast of Kaffraria in April 1829: This item is a critical edition, in English translation with an introduction and notes, of an important but forgotten French text, the Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Eole by C.E. Boniface, originally published in Cape Town in 1829. The narrative is concerned with the equally forgotten shipwreck of a French vessel in the Eastern Cape earlier that year, and tells the story of the survivors’ walk, barefoot and without food, through 200 miles of unknown territory until they reached Cape Colony, and it is completed by a description of their reactions to life in Cape Town.
Research output: Book/Report › Scholarly edition

The Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Eole and its historical and cultural significance for modern South Africa (REF2014).

Narrative

Keywords

Related content

Research output

C.E. Boniface, Relation du naufrage du navire français L’Eole, sur la côte de la Caffrerie en avril 1829.: Texte édité avec Introduction et Notes par D.J. Culpin.