This article examines the role of the father in the transferral of ideological beliefs to the son within the Afrikaans-speaking family as represented in the fiction of contemporary male authors, specifically Alexander ...

In an effort to gain greater clarity about the purpose of the deployment of genocidal elements in what is probably the earliest post-apocalyptic text written in Afrikaans, entitled ‘Ondergang van die Tweede Wêreld’ ...

Faced with the burden of apartheid history and political changes in a democratic South Africa, the male characters in Die olifantjagters (Piet van Rooyen) and Groot vyf (Johann Botha) take recourse to the apparently ...

This article forms part of a larger study on Marlene van Niekerk's Agaat (2004) as a postcolonial farm novel where the role of the women, the representation of the coloured worker, as well as issues on landownership, are ...

Both Die ding in die vuur by Riana Scheepers and Gedigte 1989-1995 by Antjie Krog are characterized by a profound interest in women in relation to their bodies. As Luce Irigaray (1981:100) and Helene Cixous (1981:256) have ...

As one of the most influential Afrikaans poets of the Dertiger movement, N.P. van Wyk Louw’s work was influenced significantly by modernism and the ideas associated with modernity. His highly canonised poems about animals ...

Die sosialistiese simpatieë wat die skryfwerk van die Vlaamse outeur Walter van den Broeck onderlê, skakel hom met die goed ontwikkelde tradisie van sosiaal betrokke literatuur in Vlaandere. Sy roman Terug naar Walden, ...

Since 1994, the date which marks the transition to democracy in South Africa, there has been an increase in the publication of sexual narratives. In her research on the intensification of the discourse on sexuality in South ...