In: Boehmer, Elleke & De Mul, Sarah (eds.) 2012. The Postcolonial Low Countries. Literature, Colonialism, Multiculturalism. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books: 139-162 , 2012
Afrikaans women's writing was one of the marginal discourses in Afrikaans literature that however... more Afrikaans women's writing was one of the marginal discourses in Afrikaans literature that however, for all its marginality, played an important part in interrogating the structures of power in South Africa during the apartheid era. As such, Afrikaans women's writing formed part of Afrikaans literature's history of resistance and dissidence which grew especially strong after 1960, as political repression, too, grew stronger. 1 Using broad and over-simplified strokes, one can paint early Afrikaans literature as largely nationalist. On the one hand it could be seen a postcolonial literature, resisting colonial oppression by the British; on the other hand it could be regarded as a colonial literature, co-opted culturally to reinforce an Afrikaner nationalism which itself continued the colonial oppression of the past.
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