• MY MOTHER'S MOTHER'S MOTHER, South African women's writing from 17th-century Dutch to contemporary Afrikaans
  • MY MOTHER'S MOTHER'S MOTHER, South African women's writing from 17th-century Dutch to contemporary Afrikaans

MY MOTHER'S MOTHER'S MOTHER, South African women's writing from 17th-century Dutch to contemporary Afrikaans

: Van Beek (P.) & Van Niekerk (A.)

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958pp., b/w & colour illus., hardback, Leiden University Press, - , 2019 

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The first of its kind, this volume collects more than seventy South African women's voices, from 1652 until today. We share the joys and sorrows of these women through their entertaining, sometimes disturbing texts. A testament to a significant segment of the linguistic and cultural history of the country, they speak in Dutch, then in different varieties of Afrikaans, 

The printing press arrived late at the Cape, and when it finally did, it took another century before the first publications by women appeared. Initially those works bore a strong biblical influence, but gradually, as women began to have access to better educational opportunities, they began to produce literature of world stature in Afrikaans. Through this literature, we can see women's perspectives on the tumultuous history of South Africa from colonisation to democracy as it unfolded.