This research is prompted by the wealth of feminine figurations and the complex intratextual relations between feminine figurations in the poetry of T.T. Cloete as depicted in the volumes Angelliera, Jukstaposisie, Allotroop, ...

Elsabe Steenberg's oeuvre, consisting among others of forty two stories in book format, has four target groups -- preschool children, young children, teenagers and adults. Her narrative work is so richly ...

The decade of the eighties was a period of unprecedented resistance to apartheid as well as unprecedented violence in South Africa. Political violence and the struggle by blacks/coloureds caused many deaths during the years ...

Lady Anne by Antjie Krog is an artistically complex text, but is also securely rooted in the community. The complexity of the text is approached by way of a "writerly" reading strategy in this dissertation: different ...

The concern with Africa that has been visible in many spheres of the Afrikaans society for the past few years, initiated this study about Africa-consciousness and the manifestation of Africa as theme in Afrikaans poetry. ...

The Afrikaans novel Karolina Ferreira (1993) by Lettie Viljoen, and Willem Brakman's Dutch novel Vincent (1993) have both been described by critics as ambivalent, unconventional, and disruptive as far as the inner and ...