National trauma work and the depiction of women in two Afrikaans historical Karoo novels: <i>Fiela’s child</i> and <i>Sorg</i>

Fiela’s child and Sorg are two female-authored popular Afrikaans novels that entertain as subtext dynamics of female agency in the same region and historical period, namely the Little Karoo of the late 19th century. The two novels present a pertinent counter-discursive paradigm to the more mainstrea...

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Main Author: Belinda Du Plooy
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: AOSIS 2014-02-01
Series:Literator
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Online Access:https://literator.org.za/index.php/literator/article/view/1010