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Publication details [#52214]

Naudé, Jacobus. 2008. The role of pseudo-translations in early Afrikaans travel writing. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 26 (1) : 97–106.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cultural anthropology | language use | narrative | text analysis | translation

Language as a subject

Afrikaans | English, British

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This analysis aims at pointing out that the Afrikaans travel novel 'Di Koningin fan Skeba (1898)' constructs an identity for Afrikaans as a cultural language, overcoming certain colonial-based restrictions.