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Surviving a Lost War
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Journal for the Study of Religion : JSR
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January 1, 2006
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- van der Merwe, Chris N
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Copyright informationCopyright Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Abstract
Afrikaans writers have often found themselves in a marginal position. During the time of apartheid, they vehemently criticised racial discrimination, thus dissociating themselves from the centre of power. After the demise of apartheid, Afrikaans writers were marginalised in a different way, when the Afrikaans language lost its previous dominant position and truly became a minority language. They were then forced to reexamine their past and reinterpret their present. In this article, recent Afrikaans writers' radical reinvention of the ideological significance of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) is discussed. One novel about the War, Ingrid Winterbach's Niggle ("Cousin") is analysed ...
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