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Title: | Die spore van Raka: oor herskrywing en kanonisering: (deel 1): (deel 2) |
Authors: | Van Coller, H.P. Van Jaarsveld, A. |
Year: | 2010 |
Periodical: | Tydskrif vir letterkunde (ISSN 0041-476X) |
Volume: | 47 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 25-40 |
Language: | Afrikaans |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | epics Afrikaans language literary criticism |
About person: | Nicolaas Petrus van Wyk Louw (1906-1970) |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.4314/tvl.v47i1.50483 |
Abstract: | Every literary system possesses a canon with the classical canon as the most stable and simultaneously the one with the most restrictive access. Writers and texts can only maintain their position within the canon through continuous rewriting: critical rewriting by literary critics (as shapers of taste and gatekeepers) and creative rewriting by fellow writers. In this study the critical rewriting (and re-realization) of one of the most acclaimed and seminal texts in Afrikaans literature, 'Raka' (1941), by N.P. van Wyk Louw, is scrutinized. Since its publication in South Africa this verse epic has been firmly entrenched in the classical Afrikaans literary canon and its continuous rewriting / re-realization can act as a case study of how a literary 'masterpiece' is dependent on institutional relationships, relevant characteristics and strategic position-taking within a literary field in order to retain this status. Against the backdrop of a theoretical framework set out in part one of this study, the specifics of Raka's rewriting / re-realization are discussed in the second part. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English, text in Afrikaans. [Journal abstract] |