Johan van Wyk

Biographic Data

ID9199798
NAMEJohan van Wyk
GIVEN NAMESJohan
FAMILY NAMEvan Wyk
SIGNATUREVAN WYK J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT4
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1998
H-INDEX0

  • “Volcano needing constant watching”: South African white labour and socialist culture 1900–1924

    Open AccessJohan van WykARTICLEJournal of Literary Studies1998

    This paper explores the forgotten legacy of white labour and socialist culture from the first two decades of the twentieth century in South Africa. It investigates the strikes, marches and processions in terms of carnival and an oral and public culture in which the trade union leader or party leader as orator, on the one hand, and the The Red Flag as song and banner, on the other, played an important role. The focus then shifts to the newspapers …

  • Literary historiography / Literatuurgeskiedskrywing

    Open AccessMichael Chapman, Leon De Kock et al.ARTICLEJournal of Literary Studies1997

    Using several commentaries on my study Southern African Literatures (including those of panellists at the Conference “Literary Studies at the Crossroads") as a point of departure, the article attempts to consider ‐ by analogy ‐ the question of whose story, perhaps whose identity, is relevant to South Africa of the 1990s. It is argued that literary studies ‐ indeed, cultural studies ‐ needs to pursue methods of comparison and translation in breaki…

  • Identity and difference: Some nineteenth and early twentieth century South African texts

    Open AccessJohan van WykARTICLEJournal of Literary Studies1994

    This paper explores constructs of identity and difference in various South African texts of the nineteenth and early twentieth century by relating these texts to the development of print, economic transformations and historical events. Investigating constructs of identity and difference is important because of the emphasis placed on these constructs by the discourse of apartheid

  • The father in two Afrikaner nationalist plays by J.F.W. Grosskopf

    Open AccessJohan van WykARTICLEJournal of Literary Studies1989

    In this article I investigate the rôle of the father within nationalism by analysing two obscure plays, Padbrekers (1947) and Legende (1942) by J.F.W. Grosskopf. Through the use of psycho‐analysis I have come to the conclusion that nationalism constitutes a melancholy‐related guilt reaction to the death of the father. Synonymous with the death of the father is the experience of the apocalyptic downfall of the fatherland as a result of capitalist …