In haar `transformasie-trilogie' bestaande uit Country of My Skull (1998), A Change of Tongue (2003) en Begging to be Black (2009) artikuleer Antjie Krog haar kritiek op en weerstand teen bepaalde opvattings van Westerse moderniteit. Die nagevolge van kolonialisme in Suid-Afrika in die vorm van apartheid, en die modernistiese skepping van `ras' word as problematiese konsepte hanteer en Krog onderneem soektogte na 'n alternatiewe manier van wees in Suid-Afrika.

Jacomien van Niekerk karteer in `baie worde': Identiteit en transformasie by Antjie Krog die argumente wat in die loop van die trilogie opgebou word rondom die nou-vervlegte konsepte van kolonialisme/postkolonialisme, `ras', identiteit, 'n Afrika-wereldbeeld' en die Suid-Afrikaanse nasie-en maak as sodanig 'n bydrae tot aktuele diskoerse. Lof vir `baie worde': Identiteit en transformasie by Antjie Krog

The framework for linguistics described in this book is not an introduction to linguistics in the conventional sense. Rather, it is an invitation to those entering the discipline to become intrigued by things lingual. Working from the premise that linguistics is not many disciplines, but one, however much it is sometimes divided up into formal ('theoretical') and sociolinguistic camps, it is designed to provide insight into phenomena operating within the lingual dimension of our experience, that circumscribes the field of linguistics. The framework allows young scholars entering the field to gain an understanding of why and how the discipline is academically sustainable, a perspective that is likely to be useful beyond the shifts in linguistic paradigms that they will no doubt experience in their academic lifetimes.
Albert Weideman is professor and head of the Department of English, University of the Free State. He is currently chief executive of the Inter-institutional Centre for Language Development and Assessment (ICELDA), a partnership of a number of multi-lingual universities (Stellenbosch, Pretoria, Northwest, Free State). He has published widely in his field. He is the author of Academic literacy: prepare to learn (2007) and Beyond expression: A systematic study of the foundations of linguistics (2009). His main research interests lie in assessing academic literacy, and in the foundations of applied linguistics.

Literary history is a problematic and shifting discourse, especially in the multilingual, post-colonial South African situation. In this book, the author draws on his intimate knowledge of documents written in Dutch during the 17th century and the texts that were produced in this language and its variations as it gradually became Afrikaans by the end of the 19th century. A History of South African Literature: Afrikaans Literature 17th-19th centuries brings an important expansion and regeneration of Afrikaans historiography within the context of South African literary history.

A History of South African Literature: Afrikaans Literature 17th-19th centuries is divided into three broad historical periods: the Dutch colonial time (1652-1795), British colonial time (first part of the 19th century) and the time of the language movements (latter half of the 19th century). It follows an inclusive approach, discussing and contextualising a wide variety of documents, like travelogues and personal as well as official journals and other “non-literary texts”. The thorough analyses of previously neglected works, like those produced at Genadendal, provide a rich and textured image of the history of writing in South Africa.

One we've learned it as children few of us think much of the alphabet and its familiar sing-song order. And yet the order if the alphabet, that simple knowledge that we take for granted, plays a major role in our adult lives. From the school register to the telephone book, from dictionaries and encyclopaedia to library shelves, our lives are ordered from A to Z. Long before Google searches, this magical system of organization gave us the ability to sift through centuries of thought, knowledge and literature, allowing us to sort, to file, and to find the information we have, and to locate the information we need. In A Place for Everything, acclaimed historian Judith Flanders draws our attention to both the neglected ubiquity of the alphabet and the long, complex history of its rise to prominence. For, while the order of the alphabet itself became fixed very soon after letters were first invented, their ability to sort and store and organize proved far less obvious. To many of our forebears, the idea of of organizing things by the random chance of the alphabet rather than by established systems of hierarchy or typology lay somewhere between unthinkable and disrespectful. A Place for Everything fascinatingly lays out the gradual triumph of alphabetical order, from its possible earliest days as a sorting tool in the Great Library of Alexandria in the third century BCE, to its current decline in prominence in our digital age of Wikipedia and Google. Along the way, the reader is enlightened and entertained with a wonderful cast of unknown facts, characters and stories from the great collector Robert Cotton, who denominated his manuscripts with the names of the busts of the Roman emperors surmounting his book cases, to the unassuming sixteenth- century London bookseller who ushered in a revolution by listing his authors by 'sirname' first.

In his first book of non-fiction since 2003, V.S. Naipaul gives us an eloquent, candid, wide-ranging narrative that delves into the sometimes inadvertent process of creative and intellectual assimilation. Born in Trinidad of Indian descent, a resident of England for his entire adult life, and a prodigious traveller, Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul has always faced the challenges of 'fitting one civilisation to another.' In A Writer's People, he discusses the writers to whom he was exposed early on, Derek Walcott, Flaubert and his own father among them; how Anthony Powell and Francis Wyndham influenced his first encounters with literary culture; what we have retained-and forgotten-of the world portrayed in Caesar's The Gallic War and Virgil's Aeneid; how the writings of Gandhi, Nehru and other Indian writers both reveal and conceal the authors and their nation. And he brings the same scrutiny to bear on his own life: his years in Trinidad; the gaps in his family history; the 'private India' kept alive through story, ritual, religion and culture; his ever-evolving reaction to the more complicated and demanding true India he would encounter for the first time when he was thirty.
Part meditation, part remembrance, as elegant as it is revelatory, A Writer's People allows us privileged insight-full of incident, humour and feeling-into the mind of one of our greatest writers.

Het jy geweet dat as jy cappuccino drink, daar 'n aap in jou koffie is? Waarom staan 'n mens se strottehoof
bekend as 'n adamsappel? Is die dahlia regtig na die Sweedse plantkundige Anders Dahl vernoem omdat
die blomblare soos sy onversorgde baard en hare gelyk het?

One of South Africa's most accomplished travel writers takes you on a series of journeys through Africa - following the footsteps of David Livingstone, wandering the back streets of old Stone Town in Zanzibar, crossing the central Sahara, puzzling over the rock-hewn churches of Ethiopia.
He hikes over lost mountains, motorcycles along the 29th parallel, canoes clear across the Okavango Delta and explores the secrets of Knysna Forest.

His descriptions show a sharp eye for detail, a fascinating knowledge of the continent's history and, above all, a deep love of the warm people and strange creatures of Africa.

Watter idee sal blindes van 'n olifant he? Miskien dink hulle dis 'n muur, 'n pilaar of 'n slang. Dit is di? analogie wat uitgebuit word in hierdie eerste Afrikaanse inleidende handboek tot die literatuurwetenskap. Die letterkunde is immers ook 'n omvattende verskynsel en die algemene literatuurwetenskap 'n veelsydige dissipline. Die letterkunde word dus vanuit verskillende teoretiese hoeke beskou. Moderne teoretiese sienings (bv. New Criticism, Nuwe Historisme en Postkolonialisme) word verduidelik deur 'n klassieke teks, Jan Rabie se Droogte, deurlopend m.b.v. hierdie teoriee te belig. Gerigte vrae oor ander Suid-Afrikaanse kortverhale help verder om hierdie nuwer teoriee vir plaaslike lesers bruikbaar te maak. Daarna word basiese vrae oor die literatuurwetenskap behandel. Die boek is 'n onontbeerlike hulpmiddel vir elke ernstige letterkundestudent en 'n moet vir elke onderwyser en dosent wat op hoogte wil bly met ontwikkelinge in die literatuurstudie.

Taalkundiges sal openbarende taalverskynsels vind in hierdie kontreiwoordeboek uit die pen van die bekende taalkundige en radiopersoonlikheid dr. Anton Prinsloo. Dit is egter veel meer as 'n woordeboek want dit sal ure se leesgenot verskaf aan lesers wat belangstel in daardie woorde en uitdrukkings wat deur baie jare heen deel geword het van 'n kontrei se eiegoed.

Identity, belonging and voyages of personal discovery are but some of the themes inventively explored in Antjie Krog's first full-length work to appear in English since the publication of Country of My Skull. In times of fundamental change, people tend to find a space, lose it and then find another space as life and the world transform around them. What does this metamorphosis entail and in what ways are we affected by it? How do we live through it and what may we become on our journey towards each other, particularly when the space and places from which we depart are - at least on the surface - vastly different? Ranging freely and often wittily across many terrains, this brave book by one of South Africa's foremost writers and poets provides a unique and compelling discourse on living creatively in South Africa.

This compilation brings together twenty essays (ten in English and ten in Afrikaans) on the work of one of South Africa's most distinguished, prolific and internationally best recognised writers. The essays look at Brink's approach to the genre and its narrative techniques.

In his writing, André Brink interrogates power, violence, and inequality by probing silences: those of the past and those which threaten the new, democratic dispensation in South Africa. At the heart of his oeuvre lies the human condition as he turns to love, myth and history for inspiration. Published since the late 1980s, the criticism collected in this volume strives to be representative of the kind of research undertaken on Brink's work and give insight into a variety of its aspects, focusing primarily on its most significant part, the novels and their reception. The essays look at Brink's approach to the genre and its narrative techniques. They also contextualise Brink's writing in relation to existentialism, (post)colonialism, myth-making, magic realism, representations of gender and sexuality, the dialectic of history and fiction, the picaresque tradition, and the tensions between memory, narration and identity. The collection includes one of the best profiles on the life and work of André Brink, written by Nicholas Wroe of the Guardian, as well as an overview essay by Godfrey Meintjes which was originally published as three separate pieces. The combined text of the latter, like no other, introduces all of the important phases and influences of Brink's prose writing.

So many people watch films and yet so few know how to write a film well. Film writing is a very specific art form. Over the past twenty-something years Janet van Eeden made every mistake in the book and eventually turned to the experts. Using advice from screenwriting experts such as Robert McKee and Christopher Vogler, among many others, Janet van Eeden developed an effective approach to scriptwriting. Cut to the Chase breaks down the essentials of writing for film. Janet van Eeden shares her experience of writing feature films and short films, as well as her many years of lecturing, in this book. This user-friendly manual unlocks the world of scriptwriting for students. It includes a step-by-step writing programme, setting specific tasks after each chapter, so that the reader can build up their own film script. The reader is guided towards writing a well thought-out first draft script written to internationally acceptable standards.

In hierdie boek- wat in twee dele gepubliseer is en gedeeltelik gebaseer is op E.H. Raidt se Afrikaans en sy Europese verlede - word opnuut gekyk na Afrikaans se veelkantige herkoms: die Europese geskiedenis van Afrikaans (grondig vernuwe en beduidend aangevul) én veral Afrikaans se Afrikaherkoms - oor die opbouproses sedert die 17de eeu om Afrikaans in 1925 as amptelike taal erken te kry, Afrikaans se ontwikkeling as volwaardige standaardtaal in die 20ste eeu en veral die aanneem van die funksies wat hiermee gepaard gaan, Afrikaans se ongelukkige apartheidsverlede en die bevrydings- en versoeningsprosesse wat hierna nodig was. Die wit verlede van Afrikaans word aangevul met die bruin en swart verlede sodat ʼn gedeelde verlede van die sprekers van Afrikaans na vore kom.

Die storie van Afrikaans is die biografie van Afrikaans soos dit op drie kontinente ontwikkel het: in Europa (waar die ontwikkeling van Nederlands as die basisvorm van Afrikaans gedokumenteer en uitgebeeld word), in Afrika (waar die 17de-eeuse Hollandse dialek met verloop van tyd onder eiesoortige omstandighede en onder invloed van verskeie faktore uiteindelik volwaardig Afrikaans geword het) en vanuit Asië (waar die impak van die taal van die slawe die wordende Afrikaans beïnvloed het tot die vorm wat dit wel geword het). Die outeurs gee aan die hand van talle illustrasies 'n nuwe, meer volledige en inklusiewe blik op Afrikaans se ingewikkelde verlede.

In Deel 1 is die Europese verlede van Afrikaans weergegee. In Deel 2 kom die Afrikaverlede van Afrikaans aan bod. Die boek verken paaie wat nog nie voorheen ontgin is nie en dit sal ʼn besliste bydrae tot die debat oor Afrikaans se verlede wees.

Wanneer is dit aantal, wanneer getal? Hoe hou ambisie verband met ambulans? Ry 'n mens in 'n baan, of in 'n laan? Wat is die verskil tussen balhorig en baldadig; belhamels, voorbokke en sondebokke; bulle en ramme, koeie en ooie? Waar kry Afrikaans “berserk” vandaan? Is dit biljoen of miljard? Flagrant? Flambojant? Kritiek of krities? Is knormoer regtig 'n woord? Waar kom die peet in peetouer vandaan? Hoe verskil relikte, relieke en relikwieë? Wanneer tap 'n mens 'n ui? Wat doen jy as jy varkoor gooi? Waar kry volstruis sy naam?

Vir jare al, Sondae net ná elf, word al dié vrae en nog baie meer in die RSG-program Die tale wat ons praat beantwoord. Ook word aktuele sake en interessanthede oor Afrikaans bespreek. Van die deelnemers aan die program is taalkundiges, leksikograwe en huidige en oudlede van die SA Akademie se Taalkommissie.

In hierdie boek bring Jana Luther en Fred Pheiffer, saam met Danny Fourie as samesteller, van die gewildste bydraes deur dié luisteraars en taalkenners byeen. Vir elkeen wat getrou by die radio luister - en almal wat lief is vir Afrikaans!