Verstedeliking, Suid-Afrikaanse letterkundes en die kultuurteks

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ID10836770
AuthorsJacomien Van Niekerk (0000-0001-6465-6584, University of Pretoria, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume48
Issue2
Pages50-70
Publication date2017-04-25
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTydskrif vir letterkunde (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0041-476X • E-ISSN: 2309-9070
PublisherAcademy of Science of South Africa (PUBLISHER • ZA)
DOI10.4314/tvl.v48i2.68303
OpenAlexW2098426122
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited4

Despite many efforts to publish comprehensive literary histories of South or Southern Africa in recent years, few studies exist in 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

Art · Comparative literature · Historiography · Identification (biology · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Representation (politics · Sociology · Zulu · History · Law · Lexicography and Language Studies · Philosophy

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