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“Die hart ’n droë blaar”: Verlies, rou en melancholie in Olga Kirsch se Afrikaanse poësie / “The heart a dry leaf”: Loss, Mourning and Melancholia in Olga Kirsch’s Afrikaans Poetry [PDF]

Werkwinkel: Journal of Low Countries and South African Studies, 2014
Abstract Reading Olga Kirsch’s Afrikaans poetry, one is struck by the important role that the experience of loss occupies in her oeuvre. It is evident in the first two volumes of poetry she published while still living in South Africa, as well as in the five volumes she published after emigrating to Israel in 1948. Because her poetry,
Louise Viljoen
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“remember that a white woman is a white man”: Ronelda S. Kamfer’s Black Feminist Poetry as Corrective to the Race Logic of White Afrikaans Literary Feminisms

Contemporary Women's Writing
Abstract The creation of the Afrikaner volk and the violent appropriation and institutionalization of the Afrikaans language as white cultural property around the beginning of the twentieth century in South Africa was a patriarchal project from the outset. The canon of Afrikaans literature reflects both the erasure of Black subjects from
Bibi Bürger
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AfriKI: Machine-in-the-Loop Afrikaans Poetry Generation

, 2021
Accepted to EACL 2021 Workshop on AfricaNLP (non-archival)
Imke van Heerden, Anil Bas
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Die Afrikaanse poësie vir kykers

Literator, 2000
Afrikaans poetry for viewers The purpose of this article is to create an awareness of the visual or socalled physiognomic aspects of poetry in Afrikaans. Several examples of Afrikaans poems with a visual presence are given.
J. van der Elst, C. Reinecke
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Die verwantskap tussen khôra en die mistiek in M.M. Walters se gedig ‘Die groot stilte’

Literator, 2022
The relationship between khôra and mysticism in M.M Walter’s poem ‘Die groot stilte’. In view of M.M. Walters’ recent death (28 Julie 2020), it is timeous to pay homage to him by focusing on a lesser-known aspect of his poetry, namely mysticism.
Elizabeth J. van der Berg, Phil van Schalkwyk   +1 more
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Die Boek wat laaste uitgepak word: Oor die Bybel in die Afrikaanse digkuns

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 1989
The last book to be unpacked Afrikaans poetry has been extensively influenced by the Bible. The works of all the most important Afrikaans poets have connections with the Bible in one way or another. As a matter of fact, the development of Afrikaans, the
T. T. Cloete
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Ruimte as tema en metafoor in die poësie van enkele vroulike Afrikaanse digters: 1994-2005

Literator, 2011
Space as theme and metaphor in the poetry of selected female poets in Afrikaans: 1994-2005 This article illustrates that the representation of physical and abstract space is exceptionally prominent in the work of female poets in Afrikaans who published ...
A.M. de Beer, H.J.G. du Plooy
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'n ope brief aan Dorian Gray en 'n peiling van die Afrikaanse resensiebedryf

Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2018
The young Afrikaans poet, Ruan Fourie, published his debut volume of poetry, 'n ope brief aan Dorian Gray, in 2017. Fourie's debut received predominantly negative reviews from Afrikaans critics.
Neil Cochrane
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Elisabeth Eybers: die volgehoue 'edel spel'

Literator, 1991
This article pays tribute to Elisabeth Eybers who was not only the first woman to publish a volume of poetry in Afrikaans, but who has also received numerous awards for her poetry over the years. She has recently been awarded the P.C.
H. du Plooy
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Boerneef en die volkspoësie

Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2018
The poet Boerneef (pseudonym of I. W. van der Merwe, 1897-1967) referred to his own poetry as volkspoësie (oral poetry). This is in contradistinction to the usual conception of oral literature as traditional verbal art handed down by word of mouth and ...
Wium van Zyl
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