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Title:'Die taal asyn aan die lippe': 'n oorsig van Breyten Breytenbach se poësie-oeuvre
Author:Van Vuuren, HelizeISNI
Year:2006
Periodical:Tydskrif vir letterkunde
Volume:43
Issue:2
Pages:46-56
Language:Afrikaans
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:poetry
Afrikaans language
About person:Breyten Breytenbach (1939-)
External link:https://doi.org/10.4314/tvl.v43i2.29745
Abstract:In a letter to friends and acquaintances dated September 2002 Breyten Breytenbach declared his final leave-taking of South Africa and Afrikaans, and a refusal to write in his mother tongue any longer. This has brought about the conundrum of Afrikaans's finest living poet still writing and producing privately, but discontinuing publishing in Afrikaans (his last collection of poetry was 'Papierblom' (Paper Flower) in 1998). This article offers a critical-historical overview of the estranged poet's oeuvre (1964-2002). The leitmotif of language, encompassing poetical comments on Afrikaans, is traced throughout the poetical oeuvre. The essay explores these statements so as to reveal the poet's changing attitude towards the language and its speakers, and traces the development over forty years of the poet's complicated love-hate relationship with Afrikaans (the language he writes in) and the Afrikaans community (his readership). Bibliogr., note, sum. in English, text in Afrikaans. [Journal abstract]
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