Verstedeliking

Vergelyking tussen Suid-Afrikaanse letterkundes en die kultuurteks

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ID10836668
AutoresJacomien Van Niekerk (0000-0001-6465-6584, University of Pretoria, autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Volume50
Fascículo3
Páginas39-59
Data de publicação2018-05-18
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoTydskrif vir letterkunde (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0041-476X • E-ISSN: 2309-9070
EditoraAcademy of Science of South Africa (PUBLISHER • ZA)
DOI10.17159/tl.v50i3.5111
OpenAlexW2164701026
IdiomaEN
Referências 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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