cam a22 5 4500 572015437 CHVBK 20191206100950.0 181119t20192019ne ac b||| 001 0 eng|d 978-90-8728-318-6 hardcover 90-8728-318-0 hardcover (IDSBB)007117368 (OCoLC)1070809314 ERASA ger ERASA YDX BDX OCLCQ L2U YDXIT OCLCF UAB GRG rda eng dut afr dut afr PT6553 .B44 2019 839.360809287 23 GV 2680 rvk My mother's mother's mother South African women's writing from 17th-century Dutch to contemporary Afrikaans Pieta van Beek, Annemarié van Niekerk Leiden Leiden University Press [2019] ©2019 958 pages illustrations (some color), portraits 24 cm Text txt rdacontent/ger ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen n rdamedia/ger Band nc rdacarrier/ger Includes bibliographical references (pages 898-935) and index For the first time more than seventy South African women's voices, from 1652 until today, are collected and published in one volume. Initially we hear their voices in Dutch, then in different varieties of Afrikaans, bearing witness to the fascinating development of a new language. We share the joys and sorrows of these women; their entertaining, sometimes gruesome stories. The printing press arrived late at the Cape, and when it finally did, it took another century before the first publications by women came rolling from the press, initially with the strong influence of the Bible clearly audible. Gradually, as women started to receive a better education, a literature of world stature came into being in Afrikaans. Through the eyes of these women we can see the tumultuous history of South Africa passing by, from colonisation up to democracy. This book is interesting for researchers of language development and (historical) texts by women, and for everyone interested in world literature and its development, and in particular in South Africa. Pieta van Beek is a researcher at the Universities of Utrecht and Stellenbosch. Annemarié van Niekerk was for many years a university lecturer and literary critic in South Africa before moving to the Netherlands. Currently she is book reviewer for the Dutch newspaper 'Trouw' and writes a column for the Belgian sociocultural magazine 'Streven' Introduction and critical material in English, texts in Dutch and Africaans, with translations into English Geschichte 1652-2018 gnd Afrikaans literature Women authors Dutch literature South Africa Dutch literature Women authors Dutch literature fast Dutch literature Women authors fast Afrikaans (DE-588)4000696-7 gnd Frauenliteratur (DE-588)4113622-6 gnd Niederländisch (DE-588)4122614-8 gnd South Africa fast Südafrika (DE-588)4078012-0 gnd Beek Pieta van 1958- author editor Van Niekerk Annemarié author editor IDSBB 700 1- Beek Pieta van 1958- author editor IDSBB 700 1- Van Niekerk Annemarié author editor acq-record SWISSBIB 572015437 BK020000 XK020000 XK020000 IDSBB B400 B400 400M BeM