Ideology and utopia in the early Van Wyk Louw
A preliminary investigation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20156667 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karin Cattell (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 23-37 |
| Publication date | 2000-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Literary Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0256-4718 • E-ISSN: 1753-5387 |
| Publisher | Unisa Press (PUBLISHER • ZA) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02564710008530254 |
| OpenAlex | W2019811617 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
Focussing on N.P. van Wyk Louw's first two collections of critical essays, Berigte te velde (1939) and Lojale verset (1939), this article considers Louw's recontextualising of the concepts “nation”, “nationalism” and “national literature”. Louw's distinction between a “national” and “colonial” literature is examined in terms of Paul Ricoeur's oppositional analysis of ideology and utopia in his Lectures on Ideology and Utopia (1986). It is argued that these two sets of binary oppositions, supported by subordinate dualisms such as individual/nation and local/universal, formed the intellectual and structural premise of Louw's redefinition of the established Afrikaans critical and creative discourse of the thirties
Art history · Colonialism · Epistemology · Ideology · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Premise · Sociology · Utopia · Education, Leadership, and Health Research · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · History · Law · Philosophy · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies
The rise of Afrikanerdom
Ideology
Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences
Afrikaans and South African Literature
Volkskapitalisme
Studies in the Theory of Ideology
Departing, returning and longing for home ‐ narration and the Pathos of Nation
Phenomenology and the Social Sciences
Superstructuralism
Lectures on ideology and utopia
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |