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- Title: Afrikaans Poetry: New Voices
- Author : Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 87 KB
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1. Introduction During the turbulent times of the state of emergency in the late 1980s most Afrikaans poets chose not to include the discursive elements associated with political oppression in their work. They chose instead to write poems that dealt with the private aches of the individual and this personal, almost autobiographical, tendency continues, for example, in the work of the poet Danie Marais. Furthermore, since most 'coloured' Afrikaans poets at the time did not find the Afrikaans literary system as accessible as it is today, they were unable to publish their protests against the state machinery that infiltrated all facets of their existence.