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South African English Literature at Afrikaans Universities
English Studies in Africa, 1970exaly +2 more sources
Problems of presenting English Literature to Afrikaans-speaking Pupils
English Studies in Africa, 1970exaly +2 more sources
African Oral Literature as Sociopolitical Commentary: A Comparative IsiXhosa-Afrikaans Approach
Southern African Journal for Folklore Studies, 2023The history, identities, languages and cultures of amaXhosa, Khoikhoi and San communities are intimately connected and hybrid. This is carefully documented by Jeff Peires in his seminal work on the history of amaXhosa, The House of Phalo. Many of the descendants of these communities also contributed to the development of the Afrikaans language.
Russel Kaschula +6 more
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Reopening Agaat : Afrikaans, Encyclopedic Narrative, World Literature
Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 2021This essay offers a meditation on Marlene van Niekerk’s 2004 novel Agaat as an encyclopedic (or, more exactly, a counter-encyclopedic) narrative, as defined–controversially–by Edward Mendelson in an influential 1976 polemic. It emphasizes Agaat’s historic specificity as a postapartheid novel par excellence: as one that does not instigate, but rather ...
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Aspects of Afrikaans in South African Literature in English
1999The focus of this essay is literature in South African English (SAE). The novels and drama written in English in South Africa have come to be marked as distinctly South African, not simply because they are set in that country, but because the variety of English in which they are written places them as products of a unique, multi-layered, highly complex
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A History of Afrikaans Literature
World Literature Today, 1995Barend J. Toerien, J. C. Kannemeyer
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