| Abstrakt: |
Since 2010, there has been greater recognition in South Africa for the language and practice of Afrikaaps, or Cape Afrikaans. Acknowledgement of Afrikaaps literary content and its settings has grown in comparison to the previous undervaluing of the literary potential of Afrikaaps, despite the interventions of Adam Small, Peter Snyders and Hein Willemse. The living areas collectively known as the Cape Flats are the settings for texts about people living geographically close to the scenic Cape Town but culturally very far from it. In the novel Innie Shadows (2019) and the short story collection As Die Cape Flats Kon Praat (2020), characters speak and act against the social neglect, reductive stereotyping and national estrangement they have experienced. This article reads these newer narratives about and from the Cape Flats with a focus on how both violence and intimacy are entangled and how Afrikaaps broadens opportunities for articulation of these entanglements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
