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by Protea Boekhuis on Mar 20th, 2013
New from Protea, Contrary: Critical Responses to the Novels of André Brink edited by Karina Magdalena Szczurek and Willie Burger:
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 André Brink’s approach to the genre and its narrative techniques.
In his writing, 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 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.
About the authors
André Philippus Brink is one of South Africa’s most distinguished, prolific and internationally best recognised writers. In South Africa, Brink rose to prominence as one of the Sestigers (Writers of the Sixties), a group of Afrikaans writers who challenged their literary establishment in the 1960s under the influence of European schools of thought and literary trends of the time, especially French existentialism.
The contributors are: A.J. Hassall, Neil Cochrane, Heilna du Plooy, Peter Horn, Richard Peck, Christell Stander, Nicholas Wroe, Isidore Diala, Marita Wenzel, Johan Anker, Lianne Barnard, Godfrey Meintjes, Monica Bungaro, Jochen Petzold, Ampie Coetzee, H.P. van Coller, Henriette Roos, Mathilda Bothma, Ute Kauer, Louise Viljoen, and Willie Burger.
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- Contrary: Critical Responses to the Novels of André Brink edited by Karina Magdalena Szczurek and Willie Burger
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by Protea Boekhuis on Feb 27th, 2013
Nicol Stassen, besturende direkteur van Protea Boekhuis, het onlangs die besluit geneem om as donateur dié uitgewershuis se naam te koppel aan godsdiensgesprekke by vanjaar se Woordfees.
Die oorspronklike donateurs, die Kerkbode, het skielik onttrek weens die omstrede aard van die gesprekke wat beplan word. LitNet se Naomi Meyer het Stassen oor sy besluit uitgevra:
Die US Woordfees het op 14 Februarie aangekondig dat Protea Boekhuis as donateurs ingetree het om die gesprekke waarvan Kerkbode as donateur onttrek het, moontlik te maak.
Die gesprekke rondom net een God en vrae oor die hemel en hel op die Woordfeesprogram word nou onder Protea Boekhuis se vaandel aangebied.
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by Protea Boekhuis on Feb 1st, 2013
Protea Boekhuis is pleased to announce the release of Portrait of a Slave Society by Karel Schoeman:
In this book, based on published sources, both primary and secondary, the available information on Cape slavery during the eighteenth century is placed in the wider context of Dutch colonial society during this period. The result, which is a sequel to Early slavery at the Cape of Good Hope by the same author, is probably the fullest and most detailed survey of the subject to date.
‘Slavery was to have a very long afterlife in South Africa, and subtly but profoundly to affect the further development of the country. The investigation of slavery in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is therefore by no means an irrelevant exercise.’
About the Author
Karel Schoeman is the author of a large number of works of fiction and non-fiction, both in English and Afrikaans, and has won numerous literary awards. He has recently concentrated on the Dutch colonial period in South Africa, on which, besides various titles in Afrikaans, he has published Early slavery at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1717 (2007), and Seven Khoi lives: Cape biographies of the seventeenth century (2009).
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by Izak on May 7th, 2012
Protea Boekhuis is proud to announced that three of our books, The Boers in Angola, 1928-1975 by Nicol Stassen, Prophet without Honour: FS Malan – Afrikaner South African and Cape liberal by FA Mouton and A South African Censor’s Tale by Kobus van Rooyen, have made the longlist for the 2012 Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for non-fiction.
The 41 titles on this year’s longlist are vying for the first prize of R75 000. Good luck to Stassen, Mouton and Van Rooyen!
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by Izak on Jul 22nd, 2011
Achmat Davids se The Afrikaans of the Cape Muslims, geredigeer deur Suleman Dangor en Hein Willemse, is onlangs by Timbuktu Books in Kaapstad bekendgestel.
Davids het vasgestel dat die eerste Afrikaanse tekste in Arabiese skrif deur die Moslems aan die Kaap geskryf is. Kort nadat hy die boek oor hierdie onderwerp geskryf het, is Davids oorlede, maar met die hulp van Dangor en Willemse is dit nou deur Protea Boekhuis uitgegee. Kyk na Mog. Kammie Kamedien se foto’s van die bekendstelling:
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by Izak on Jul 21st, 2011
Die bekendstelling van Achmat Davids se boek The Afrikaans of the Cape Muslims, het Munadia Karaan, joernalis van die Voice of the Cape-radiostasie, laat terugdink aan die dae toe sy ‘n groentjie in die nuuskantoor was en Davids (“Appatjie”, soos sy hom noem) haar aangemoedig het om Afrikaans op die lug te praat. Sy skryf op haar blog dat dit haar laat besef het: “Of jy nou suiwer akademiese Afrikaans, Afrikaaps of die Afrikaans soos ons dit nog op die mimbar hoor praat…dis deel van ons menswees en bly nogsteeds die hartstaal van baie van ons mense.”
Te danke aan Davids se studie, wat bevind het dat die eerste Afrikaanse tekste eintlik deur Moslems aan die Kaap in Arabiese skrif geskryf is, weet Karaan dat: “Ons nooit meer verskoning hoef te maak vir ons eie Afrikaans nie”.
Aangesien hier blog (wat op aarde is ‘n blog in Afrikaans?) oor Afrikaans gaan, kan ek dit beswaarlik in Engels doen. Dit voel net nie reg nie. Dus verwelkom ek die geleentheid om my Afrikaans weer ordentlik te kan benut aangesien sulke geleenthede deesdae so skaars is soos hoendertande.
Hierdie week het Appatjie – al marhoom Dr Achmat Davids – sommer lewensgroot voor ons herrys toe sy nuutste boek gebaseer op jare se navorsing Vrydag vrygestel is. Hierin het hy vir die Kaapse Moslem gemeenskap ‘n stukkie van ons kultuur historiese geskiedenis terug gegee deur seker te maak ons nasate weet dat Afrikaans – wat blanke Afrikaners summier vir hulself wou annekseer – eintlik net soveel aan ons behoort.
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by Izak on Jul 15th, 2011
Achmat Davids’ book The Afrikaans of the Cape Muslims, edited by Suleman Dangor and Hein Willemse, will “help to correct many misconceptions about the Afrikaans language”, including the idea that it is “the exclusive property of white Afrikaners”, Dangor told Munadia Karaan of Voice of the Cape Radio.
Through his studies of early Arabic manuscripts produced at the Cape, Davids found that Arabic script was used to write the first Afrikaans texts:
ان دي كُوْنِڠْ سْكَپْ اس بِيْدِيْ هُوْكَ الله تعالا ان ڨَارْلِكْ اللـه تعالا اِسْ بَاس فِـَرْ اَلْدِيْ اِتْسْ<
“En die konungskap is by die hoege Allah ta`ālā en waarlik Allah ta`ālā is baas vir al die iets.” (A sample of Arabic Afrikaans, quoting from the Qur’ān – Sūrat al-Mulk 67:1) Such examples of Afrikaans written in a curious Arabic script in early works at the Cape brings new appreciation for the Muslim contribution to a language that had long been deemed the exclusive property of white Afrikaners. Because of the inherent politics around the language, especially after it became the flashpoint that led to the 1976 student riots, Muslims chose to distance themselves from the language.
But according to Prof Suleman Dangor from the University of KZN, the newly published research of the late Dr Achmat Davids in his book The Afrikaans of the Cape Muslims, is helping Muslims to reclaim the contribution they made to the language as a legitimate part of their heritage. Dangor, along with Hein Willemse, took three years to edit the work which was published by Protea Books and released on Friday.
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- The Afrikaans of the Cape Muslims: Afrikaans at the Cape from 1815 to 1915 – A Sociolinguistic Study by Achmat Davids, edited by Hein Willemse and Suleman E Dangor
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by Izak on Jul 4th, 2011
The Afrikaans of the Cape Muslims by the late Achmat Davids was launched at Cape Town’s Timbuktu Books on Friday night. The launch commenced with a brief prayer lead by book shop proprietor, Saliegh Salaam, who said that he was extremely honoured to host the community and delighted to introduce the speakers. What followed was an erudite discussion with the book’s editors, Hein Willemse and Suleman E Dangor, who were joined by the visiting professor, Muhammed Haron, from the University of Botswana.
According to Willemse, Davids believed that the work he was doing was important. “He’d go to the public reading rooms off the beaten path in the public library. He’d come to my table saying, ‘Have you seen this? See this!’ He was the kind of scholar we should all want to be, an engaged person for whom the world made sense because you could understand it, because it was allowing us to understand it. In more ways than one, his sense of involvement, his undogmatic approach was something we could learn from.”
Muhammed Haron said he believed that the book should have received a PhD. “My feelings still stand that that committee should have given Achmat Davids a PhD at that time because of the calibre of work.” Talking about him brought back fond memories. “He was a lone soldier, working and plying the trade as a social worker on one hand, but on the other hand doing research work. Many came to know him as an archivist. Whenever he found something exciting he wanted to share it with the world. He stands out in our memory. We should receive this work as a commemoration of his love of labour. He was a mentor to the ‘lighties’ at UWC.”
Co-editor, Suleman Dangor, thanked the many people who ensured the success of the project. A vigorous question and answer session followed from the floor with many guests engaging enthusiastically with the speakers.
The audience enjoyed an array of delicious snacks afterwards and queued up to have their copies signed.
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Liesl Jobson (@LieslJobson) livetweeted from the launch using the hashtag livebooks, here are some of her tweets:
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by Izak on Jul 1st, 2011
Achmat Davids wrote The Afrikaans of the Cape Muslims after coming across ancient Arabic scrolls that he could not decipher, unitl he figured out that it was written in Afrikaans. This lead him to research the establishment of Arabic-Afrikaans texts and the emergence of the Cape Muslim Afrikaans. As I recently said in an interview for the Voice of the Cape radio station, Davids found that at the time when Dutch was still spoken at the Cape, the Malay people were already speaking and writing Afrikaans:
The colourful history and culture of Cape Muslims and their Afrikaans mother-tongue is explored in a new book by accomplished author, the late Dr Achmat Davids. The Afrikaans of the Cape Muslims focuses on the study of the linguistic nature of Afrikaans spoken in the 19th and 20th century by the Cape Muslim Society. Boeta Achmat, as he was affectionately known, was a former VOC station manager that was better known as a brilliant scholar who was passionate about the legacy of Cape Muslims.
Known for his scholarly articles and books such as Mosques of the Bo-Kaap (1980) and The History of the Tana Baru (1985), the latest book which will be relaunched next week by Timbuktu Books brings his work back into stark focus. “He was very involved in his community. All the while he worked hard to preserve and to understand as much of the Cape’s history and the history that was written not by the conqueror but by the conquered,” said Izak de Vries, publishing manager at Protea Boekhuis.
Davids passed away shortly after completing the book, but with the help of the editors Hein Willemse and Suleman E Dangor, we are pleased to launch the book tonight at Timbuktu Books in Cape Town. Come join us!
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- The Afrikaans of the Cape Muslims: Afrikaans at the Cape from 1815 to 1915 – A Sociolinguistic Study by Achmat Davids, edited by Hein Willemse, Suleman E Dangor
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EAN: 9781869192365
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by Izak on Jun 14th, 2011
Timbuktu Books and Protea Book House cordially invite you to the launch of The Afrikaans of the Cape Muslims by Achmat Davids (edited by Hein Willemse and Suleman E. Dangor) on Friday, 1 July 2011 in Claremont, Cape Town.
The guest speaker will be Prof Muhammed Haron form the University of Botswana. The book will be on sale at the event.
See you there!
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- Date: Friday, 01 July 2011
- Time: 6:30 PM for 7:00 PM
- Venue: Timbuktu Books,
Shop G03, Ground Floor,
Stadium on Main,
Main Road,
Claremont, Cape Town | Map
- Guest Speaker: Prof Muhammed Haron
- RSVP: Timbuktu Books, info@timbuktubooks.co.za
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