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A scholarly survey examines prose produced during the early twentieth-century Afrikaans literary revival, tracing its historical context, cultural conditions, and stylistic tendencies. It analyzes polemical writings, periodical contributions, and works by principal prose authors, supplying biographical notes and close readings of novels, short stories, satire, didactic pieces, animal sketches, travel writing, and historical prose. Chapters address tensions with earlier literary currents, risks of cultural isolation, Calvinist influence on aesthetics, language problems including anglicisms, and features of dialogue and narrative technique. The author assesses critical debates and offers a subject-based taxonomy and evaluation of the movement's thematic and stylistic limitations.
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