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| Title: | Three decades short |
| Author: | De Vries, Abraham H. |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Periodical: | Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa |
| Volume: | 17 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 37-51 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | short stories Afrikaans language |
| Abstract: | The author examines developments in the Afrikaans short story between 1970 and 2000. The three decades of the 1970s to the 1990s were for the Afrikaans short story the period during which the contemporaneous social and political conflicts of South Africa came to the fore. During the 1960s, however, there was more emphasis on renewal of form in the prose than on sociopolitical themes. The 1970s and 1980s were characterized by the so-called 'border literature'. During the 1990s, female writers dominated the scene. A fourth trend, making its first appearance in the 1990s, stresses the reconciliation of Western culture with the unintelligible, mystic Africa. For each trend, the author presents a number of writers and their works. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract] |