Verstedeliking

Vergelyking tussen Suid-Afrikaanse letterkundes en die kultuurteks

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10836668
AutoresJacomien Van Niekerk (0000-0001-6465-6584, University of Pretoria, autor de correspondencia)
Año2018
Volumen50
Número3
Páginas39-59
Fecha de publicación2018-05-18
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTydskrif vir letterkunde (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0041-476X • E-ISSN: 2309-9070
EditorialAcademy of Science of South Africa (PUBLISHER • ZA)
DOI10.17159/tl.v50i3.5111
OpenAlexW2164701026
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas8

Despite many efforts to publish comprehensive literary histories of South or Southern Africa in recent years, few studies existin which a thorough comparative study is undertaken between two or more South African literatures. This article wants to provide a practical example of such a study by comparing the urbanisation of Afrikaners in Afrikaans literature with that of black people as seen in English and Zulu literature. The statement made by Ampie Coetzee that comparative studies should take place within the framework of discursive formations is one of the fundamental starting points of this study. Maaike Meijer’s concept of the “cultural text” is further employed as a theoretical instrument. The identification of repeating sets of representation is central to the demarcation of a “cultural text about urbanisation” in Afrikaans, English and Zulu literature respectively. The cultural text forms the basis from which a valid comparative study can be embarked upon, and the results of the research have important implications for further comparative studies but also literary historiography

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