Journal Articles by Luan Staphorst
Acta Academica, 2024
This article offers a speculative reflection on the position of English as a language within the ... more This article offers a speculative reflection on the position of English as a language within the context of Africa-a question that continues to 'haunt' African studies broadly, and African linguistics, literary, and cultural studies specifically. To this end, the ideas and arguments of Chinua Achebe and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o on the language question that arose from the 1962 African Writers Conference is firstly critiqued, after which the article secondly problematises the notion of the 'ownership' of language that underpins both Achebe and Wa Thiong'o's views. Thirdly a speculative argument for the repositioning of English relative to the continent that draws on the concept of Afropolitanism is presented. Through 'reading' English and Afropolitanism together, and specifically presenting the concept of 'Afropolitanese', the article concludes we could acknowledge how the English language in particular, and language as a sociocultural phenomenon in general, is enmeshed with a global, yet rooted, cosmopolitanism.
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Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2024
This last part of a four-part article series investigates the history of sociolinguistics relativ... more This last part of a four-part article series investigates the history of sociolinguistics relative to Orange River Afrikaans, one of Afrikaans’s three main dialect continuas, from the period 1999 to 2021. Grounded in linguistic historiography broadly construed, and Michel Foucault’s archaeological and genealogical orientations specifically, this part of the article sketches how the intellectual history of Orange River Afrikaans in this period can be summarised as the Zeitgeist of textuality. This period sees the height of the study of written texts – of both archival and creative writing. A final discussion focuses on the discourse of “romantic curiosa”, a discourse that has pervaded the study of Orange River Afrikaans since the onset of Afrikaans sociolinguistics. The writings and research of, amongst others, Sanet du Plessis, Frank Hendricks, Annél Otto, Elvis Saal, Donovan Lawrene, Carla Luijks, Luan Staphorst, Camilla Christie, Daan Wissing, and Hendrik Theys are discussed. Through this, the article series challenges four central and dominant presuppositions on Orange River Afrikaans, namely that there are limited sources available relative to it, that it constitutes an “invisible” language form, that it can be typified as an expression of Black Afrikaans, and that Kaaps (Cape Afrikaans), rather than Orange River Afrikaans, should be regarded as the “oldest” form of Afrikaans.
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Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2024
This third part of a four-part article series investigates the history of sociolinguistics relati... more This third part of a four-part article series investigates the history of sociolinguistics relative to Orange River Afrikaans, one of Afrikaans’s three main dialect continuas, from the period 1980 to 1998. Grounded in linguistic historiography broadly construed, and Michel Foucault’s archaeological and genealogical orientations specifically, this part of the article sketches how the intellectual history of Orange River Afrikaans in this period can be divided into two Zeitgeists – the time of dialectology of 1980-1998 and the time of language identity since 1980. This period sees the height of Afrikaans fieldwork dialectology. The writings and research of Christo van Rensburg, Hans du Plessis, Hendrina Nieuwoudt, Vic Webb, Hans den Besten and Gabriël Nienaber are discussed. Through this, the article series challenges four central and dominant presuppositions on Orange River Afrikaans, namely that there are limited sources available relative to it, that it constitutes an “invisible” language form, that it can be typified as an expression of Black Afrikaans, and that Kaaps (Cape Afrikaans), rather than Orange River Afrikaans, should be regarded as the “oldest” form of Afrikaans.
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Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2024
This second part of a four-part article series investigates the history of sociolinguistics relat... more This second part of a four-part article series investigates the history of sociolinguistics relative to Orange River Afrikaans, one of Afrikaans’s three main dialect continuas, from the period 1917 to 1979. Grounded in linguistic historiography broadly construed, and Michel Foucault’s archaeological and genealogical orientations specifically, this part of the article sketches how the intellectual history of Orange River Afrikaans in the period 1917-1979 can be divided into two Zeitgeists – the time of the discourse of racial and linguistic bastardization of 1917-1939, and the time of the linguistic atlas of 1940-1979. This constitutes the period of the establishment of Afrikaans-language scholarship. The writings of Gideon von Wielligh, Stephanus Boshoff, John Rademeyer, Abel Coetze, and Stephanus Louw are discussed. Through this, the article series challenges four central and dominant presuppositions on Orange River Afrikaans, namely that there are limited sources available relative to it, that it constitutes an “invisible” language form, that it can be typified as an expression of Black Afrikaans, and that Kaaps (Cape Afrikaans), rather than Orange River Afrikaans, should be regarded as the “oldest” form of Afrikaans.
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Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2024
This first part of a four-part article series investigates the history of sociolinguistics relati... more This first part of a four-part article series investigates the history of sociolinguistics relative to Orange River Afrikaans, one of Afrikaans’s three main dialect continuas, from the period 1595 to 1916. Grounded in linguistic historiography broadly construed, and Michel Foucault’s archaeological and genealogical orientations specifically, this part of the article sketches how the intellectual history of Orange River Afrikaans in the period 1595-1916 figured through two Zeitgeists – the ‘pre-time’ of 1595-1843, and the more professional European-language sociolinguistic orientated studies of the period 1844-1916. This constitutes the period of sociolinguistics about Afrikaans, but not in Afrikaans. The writings of travellers and journal keepers, including Willem ten Rhyne, Peter Kolbe, Otto Mentzel, John Barrow and Hinrich Lichtenstein, and more professional linguists, including Antoine Changuion, Wilhelm Bleek, Thomas le Roux, Jac van Ginneken, and Theophilus Hahn, are discussed. In conclusion to this part of the article series, mention is made of the transitionary period of the first and second language movements relative to the consciousness around Afrikaans. Through this, the article series challenges four central and dominant presuppositions on Orange River Afrikaans, namely that there are limited sources available relative to it, that it constitutes an ‘invisible’ language form, that it can be typified as an expression of Black Afrikaans, and that Kaaps (Cape Afrikaans), rather than Orange River Afrikaans, should be regarded as the ‘oldest’ form of Afrikaans.
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Southern African Review of Education, 2023
This speculative paper explores the relationship between the notions of emergency and university ... more This speculative paper explores the relationship between the notions of emergency and university from two angles. First, the university is seen as being in a state of emergency. Second, the university is a state of emergency. Both these readings, we argue, are deployed to uncritically advance the dominance of techno-rationality within higher education in South Africa and elsewhere, which places the social justice possibilities of the university at a distance from itself. A key task of decentred critical university studies (DCUS) is to provide, amongst others, a disclosing critique of these processes as a basis on which alternative praxes can be imagined. The paper conceptualises the contours of a possible DCUS approach, drawing on the notions of emancipation, emergence, conviviality, and incompleteness in relation to the Africanisation, decolonisation, and Southern knowledges nexus-further differentiating it from critical university studies in the Anglo-American context.
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LitNet Akademies, 2023
Die artikel ondersoek krities die artikulering van ’n begeerte na progressiewe verandering in die... more Die artikel ondersoek krities die artikulering van ’n begeerte na progressiewe verandering in die Afrikaanse taal- en letterkunde deur opkomende akademici. Twee sleutelontwikkelings het die afgelope paar jaar om so ’n begeerte vorm aangeneem, naamlik die Ontlaering-projek, wat op verskeie kongresse en spesiale uitgawes van vaktydskrifte uitgeloop het, en die Sitkamer-podsending, wat as ’n informele gespreksruimte oor Afrikaans en die Afrikaanse letterkunde dien. Die begrip kolonialeske word as kritiese leesbril ingespan. Kolonialeske verwys na ’n diskursiewe verskynsel waar akademici sonder historiese begronding in ’n vakgebied eksplisiet progressiewe ideale deur hulle intellektuele werk nastreef – en as gevolg van die gebrek aan kundigheid tot hoogs foutiewe gevolgtrekkings kom. Die verhouding tussen akademikus en die navorsingstradisie verteenwoordig gevolglik ’n vorm van kolonialisme. Deur te fokus op diskoerse wat deur lede van die Ontlaering-projek en die Sitkamer-podsending – waarvan die meerderheid lede by beide betrokke is – aangedryf word wys die artikel op die problematiek van opkomende Afrikaanse akademici wanneer hulle hulself aan kolonialeske kennisvorming, identiteitsvorming en netwerkvorming skuldig maak. Die artikel lewer sodoende ’n betoog vir ’n histories begronde, kritiese en nederige navorsingskultuur – waarsonder geen progressiewe transformasie bewerkstellig sal word nie.
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Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2023
This concept note was produced for a symposium held under the banner of Critical University Studi... more This concept note was produced for a symposium held under the banner of Critical University Studies – South Africa (CUS-SA) at the University of Johannesburg in August 2022. The opening plenary session was addressed by Profs. Premesh Lalu, Sarah Mosoetsa and Sarah Nuttall. A summary of a paper prepared for this symposium by Michael Peters on the university in techno-rational times was presented as part of the panel. The rest of the symposium featured critical discussion in response to this concept note and presentations of potential chapter contributions for a book on the theme. The concept note is followed below by six responses by South African higher education scholars in response to Michael Peters’ and the CUS-SA concept note.
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Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe, 2023
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South African Journal of Cultural History | Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Kultuurgeskiedenis, 2023
This article investigates the complex views on the language and culture of the |xam, a South Afri... more This article investigates the complex views on the language and culture of the |xam, a South African ‘First People’, in the north-western interior as expressed in the Afrikaans recordings of Gideon Retief von Wielligh (1859–1932), an amateur folklorist, historian, and linguist. His oeuvre is largely neglected in academia – primarily due to allegations of plagiarism relative to the famous work of Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd, assumptions of the position of Afrikaans, and critiques of his racist portrayals of black South Africans. This study investigates the different attitudes that can be gleaned from his four-part Boesman-Stories (1919–1921). The discussion illustrates the complexity of his views – which incorporates racist tropes, critiques of settler-colonial violence, and activist calls for research.
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Research in African Literatures, 2024
Against the backdrop of the 60 th anniversary of the African Writers Conference and the perennial... more Against the backdrop of the 60 th anniversary of the African Writers Conference and the perennial question of English as an 'African language', this article investigates the ways in which English has been used within the literary writings of Chinua Achebe and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. An overview of the (seemingly) divergent views on English articulated by Achebe and Wa Thiong'o is presented, and two of their novels, namely Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Wa Thiong'o's Devil on the Cross, are then situated within the frame of translationality. Extracts from the two novels are comparatively analysed and discussed with reference to translation theory, specifically 'thick translation', 'omdigting', and 'foreignization', in relation to their lexical and ideological treatment of English. The article concludes that despite the differences in attitude towards English expressed in their polemical and philosophical writings, their literary treatment of English points to a number of similarities.
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Journal of African Cultural Studies, 2023
Against the backdrop of #Rhodesmustfall and calls for the decolonisation of the South African aca... more Against the backdrop of #Rhodesmustfall and calls for the decolonisation of the South African academy, #Afrikaansmustfall arose specifically targeting the continued use of Afrikaans as a language of teaching and learning. This article investigates the ways in which young, Black Afrikaans speakers – the often invisible members of the Afrikaans community – are critiquing and reimagining the hegemonic form of the Afrikaans language and university. The analysis centres on poems from the debut anthologies of Ashwin Arendse and Veronique Jephtas, namely Swatland (2021) and Soe Rond Ommie Bos (2021) – both of which are written in Kaaps, a non-standardised variant of Afrikaans. Critical university studies and James Scott’s notion of transcripts are the central frames through which the article speculates as to what a future form of the Afrikaans university, namely the African-Afrikaans university, could look like. The new script for this university includes being anti-racist, anti-neoliberal, and affective – whilst a concretely broadened form of Afrikaans grounds it.
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Teen die agtergrond van #Rhodesmustfall en wekroepe vir die dekolonisering van die Suid-Afrikaanse universiteitslandskap, het #Afrikaansmustfall, wat spesifiek die gebruik van Afrikaans as taal van onderrig en leer teiken, verrys. Die artikel ondersoek die wyses waarop jong, Swart Afrikaanssprekendes – die telkens onsigbare lede van die Afrikaanse taallandskap – kritiek jeens die hegemoniese vorm van die Afrikaanse taal en -universiteit uitspreek en dit herverbeel. Die bespreking fokus op gedigte uit die debuutbundels van Ashwin Arendse en Veronique Jephtas, naamlik Swatland (2021) en Soe Rond Ommie Bos (2021) – met beide bundels wat in Kaaps, ‘n ongestandaardiseerde Afrikaanse variëteit, geskryf is. Kritiese universiteitstudies en James Scott se begrip van transkripsies word ingespan as die leidende leesbrille waardeur daar oor ‘n toekomstige vorm van die Afrikaanse universiteit, naamlik die African-Afrikaanse universiteit, besin en bepeins word. Die nuwe skripsie van dié universiteit sluit in dat dit anti-rassisties, anti-neoliberaal, en affektief is – met ‘n konkreet-verruimende vorm van Afrikaans wat dit begrond.
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Journal of Southern African Studies, 2022
This article investigates the historicity of Gideon von Wielligh’s collection of |xam folklore, h... more This article investigates the historicity of Gideon von Wielligh’s collection of |xam folklore, history, and observational accounts published predominantly in Afrikaans during the early 20th century. Von Wielligh’s collection is often portrayed as suspect in relation to the ‘great’ |xam archive, namely that of Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd – with accusations of plagiarism a common charge. Through a holographic archaeological reading, an approach conceptualised by drawing on linguistic archaeology and philology specifically, and the holographic paradigm and archaeology of knowledge in general, the article analyses the traces of |xam in Von Wielligh’s otherwise Afrikaans texts. The reading focuses on Von Wielligh’s texts on the one hand and Specimens of Bushman Folklore (1911) on the other. Since Specimens was the only selection from the Bleek and Lloyd archive to which von Wielligh had access when he published his collection between 1919 and 1921, it is, within holographic archaeological terms, the ‘urtext’ or ‘source of certainty’. In contrast, von Wielligh’s texts are regarded as the ‘source of suspicion’, with the |xam linguistic data within it ‘dated’ in relation to Specimens. The analysis leads to the following three conclusions: first, von Wielligh’s command of |xam linguistic data validates the authenticity of the collection; second, we can use von Wielligh’s recordings to change the idea of the extant |xam archive in a way that challenges the fixation on Bleek and Lloyd; third, the politics of intellectual history, such as the defaming of von Wielligh, is tied not simply to ideas but to the history of the book as a material object. This acknowledgement and changed perspective on the |xam and the available records could, in turn, lead to deeper and more generative research on the |xam specifically, Khoesan studies generally and South (and southern) African studies more broadly.
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Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2021
Although the field of Bushman studies has seen a number of different disciplines being drawn upon... more Although the field of Bushman studies has seen a number of different disciplines being drawn upon to address key questions, the textual material of the Bleek and Lloyd archive is still relatively understudied. Studies which do approach this material, however, tend to do so through an anthropological and/or archaeological lens, with literary analysis often marginalized. This article, through taking account of considerations of the reception theories developed in literary studies, criticises the various interpretations of a 19th century ǀxam language kum, or narrative. Originally published in Specimens of Bushman Folklore (1911), the kum “Bushman presentiments”, concerning an enigmatic experience narrated by ||kabbo, has led to six distinct interpretations—some of which are in conversation with one another in various ways, but they nevertheless offer differing views. Through a critical review grounded in literary folkloristics and reception theory, the article argues for renewed interest in and study of the kum “Bushman presentiments”. It is argued that future studies need to be based on three factors: disciplinary foregrounding, linguistic analysis, and comparative reading. These three factors, the article concludes, are the most glaring limitations of the existing interpretations, and if taken into consideration they could lead to a proliferation of insight into the kum.
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Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2021
Although the field of Bushman studies has seen a number of different disciplines being drawn upon... more Although the field of Bushman studies has seen a number of different disciplines being drawn upon to address key questions, the textual material of the Bleek and Lloyd archive is still relatively understudied. Studies which do approach this material, however, tend to do so through an anthropological and/or archaeological lens, with literary analysis often marginalized. This article, through taking account of considerations of the reception theories developed in literary studies, criticises the various interpretations of a 19th century ǀxam language kum, or narrative. Originally published in Specimens of Bushman Folklore (1911), the kum “Bushman presentiments”, concerning an enigmatic experience narrated by ||kabbo, has led to six distinct interpretations—some of which are in conversation with one another in various ways, but they nevertheless offer differing views. Through a critical review grounded in literary folkloristics and reception theory, the article argues for renewed interest in and study of the kum “Bushman presentiments”. It is argued that future studies need to be based on three factors: disciplinary foregrounding, linguistic analysis, and comparative reading. These three factors, the article concludes, are the most glaring limitations of the existing interpretations, and if taken into consideration they could lead to a proliferation of insight into the kum.
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Southern African Humanities, 2021
This article argues that the field of Bushman studies, although facing many crises of definition ... more This article argues that the field of Bushman studies, although facing many crises of definition and focus, could be meaningful beyond the borders of its problematic past. To this end, a recent literary-philosophical pedagogical study which draws on Bushman studies, specifically research on Bleek and Lloyd's |xam archive, is critiqued, illustrating the pitfalls of an uncritical absorption of the field into broader discourses. This critique is balanced by a reading of the oral testimony of ||kabbo, one of the |xam whose voices line the archive, as offering a view of what scholarship in Bushman studies could look like-scholarship that is ordinary, complex, and attuned. This scholarship is finally compared to and contrasted with my theorisation of colonialesque knowledge-knowledge that is not colonial proper, but that still hinders truly transformative research. It is argued that if Bushman studies, and African studies more generally, could adopt ordinary, complex and attuned scholarship-in contrast to colonialesque approaches-it would be impactful and meaningful beyond its own current confines.
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Tydskrif vir Nederlands en Afrikaans, 2020
Although Bleek and Lloyd archival material of ǀxam (Bushman) folklore, oral history, and customs ... more Although Bleek and Lloyd archival material of ǀxam (Bushman) folklore, oral history, and customs has been studied from a number of different disciplinary dispositions, a thorough linguistic analysis and description of |xam has not yet been done. What has, however, emerged in research into the archive since the 1990’s, has been a challenge to the perception of the archive as internally coherent and bound purely to the ǀxam language – Afrikaans, the intermediary language of communication between Bleek, Lloyd and the ǀxam, at least initially, has proven to have played a much larger role in the transcription and translation process than previously thought. This article reviews the existing literature of studies concerned with Afrikaans’ relation with the archive and argues for composing a corpus of all the extant Afrikaans linguistic data which can be gleaned from it – and, importantly, to use this data to create a sketch of the variety of Afrikaans known as Orange River (also Gariep or North Western) Afrikaans as it was spoken in the 19th Century Cape frontier. Through this, the understudied variety of Orange River Afrikaans could be described with greater accuracy, and the possible influences of ǀxam, and Khoesan languages more generally, on the development of Afrikaans could be better understood.
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Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, 2019
This article investigates the problematic position of Bushman heritage. Acknowledging the importa... more This article investigates the problematic position of Bushman heritage. Acknowledging the importance of this heritage in itself, but further as unmissable against the backdrop of calls for the decolonisation of knowledge in South Africa, a discourse of indigenous rights appears as the most just and suitable tool for analysis and critical reflection. Indigenous rights, however, proves to be quite problematic unto itself. This article offers a critique of the framework of indigenous rights, and offers an alternative theorisation through the lens of citizenship. Through critiquing the dominant discourses of rights and ownership which seem to underpin the majority of current debates. citizenship moves the paradigm from the centre of simplicity to the depths of complexity-emphasising the fallacy of ownership, the essentialism of rights and the importance of a shared knowledge and heritage. Citizenship, in contrast with rights and indigeneity, opens to a third space-a space of both conceptual and practical decolonisation.
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Book Chapters by Luan Staphorst
Die tempteerbare oog: Opstelle oor die werk van Marlene van Niekerk. ’n Huldiging , 2023
This essay offers an exploration of the notion of the "hermeneutical university" as formulated th... more This essay offers an exploration of the notion of the "hermeneutical university" as formulated through a critical reading of the literary oeuvre of Marlene van Niekerk. The backdrop to this discussion is critical university studies (CUS), South African student movements and politics, including #Rhodesmustfall, and the literary tradition that has taken shape around the socalled campus/college/varsity/academic novel. To this end, I firstly provide an overview of what in this essay is conceived of as "university literature"-literature that has the university, academics, and/or students as central subjects. This term is offered in lieu of other, more established terms-including campus, college, varsity, and academic novels-in order to create a space wherein non-novelistic literary genres could be studied alongside the novel. Selected texts from Van Niekerk's oeuvre are then analysed in relation to CUS. This analysis points to three major ideologies of the South African university as being engaged with in Van Niekerk's writings, namely the colonial, the neoliberal, and the decolonial universities. Despite being distinct, Van Niekerk's writings point to a number of commonalities between these institutional forms, hence I describe this historic-present discursive formation as the (de)colonial-neoliberal nexus. The essay concludes by discussing how Van Niekerk's ideal university type emerges through both her creative and critical writings. This university, called the hermeneutical university, is theorised as a contextualised, erotic, humanising, antihegemonic, anti-promethean, and play-centred space for the co-creation of knowledge in indigenous South African languages, notably Afrikaans.
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Teen die agtergrond van #Rhodesmustfall en wekroepe vir die dekolonisering van die Suid-Afrikaanse universiteitslandskap, het #Afrikaansmustfall, wat spesifiek die gebruik van Afrikaans as taal van onderrig en leer teiken, verrys. Die artikel ondersoek die wyses waarop jong, Swart Afrikaanssprekendes – die telkens onsigbare lede van die Afrikaanse taallandskap – kritiek jeens die hegemoniese vorm van die Afrikaanse taal en -universiteit uitspreek en dit herverbeel. Die bespreking fokus op gedigte uit die debuutbundels van Ashwin Arendse en Veronique Jephtas, naamlik Swatland (2021) en Soe Rond Ommie Bos (2021) – met beide bundels wat in Kaaps, ‘n ongestandaardiseerde Afrikaanse variëteit, geskryf is. Kritiese universiteitstudies en James Scott se begrip van transkripsies word ingespan as die leidende leesbrille waardeur daar oor ‘n toekomstige vorm van die Afrikaanse universiteit, naamlik die African-Afrikaanse universiteit, besin en bepeins word. Die nuwe skripsie van dié universiteit sluit in dat dit anti-rassisties, anti-neoliberaal, en affektief is – met ‘n konkreet-verruimende vorm van Afrikaans wat dit begrond.
Book Chapters by Luan Staphorst
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Teen die agtergrond van #Rhodesmustfall en wekroepe vir die dekolonisering van die Suid-Afrikaanse universiteitslandskap, het #Afrikaansmustfall, wat spesifiek die gebruik van Afrikaans as taal van onderrig en leer teiken, verrys. Die artikel ondersoek die wyses waarop jong, Swart Afrikaanssprekendes – die telkens onsigbare lede van die Afrikaanse taallandskap – kritiek jeens die hegemoniese vorm van die Afrikaanse taal en -universiteit uitspreek en dit herverbeel. Die bespreking fokus op gedigte uit die debuutbundels van Ashwin Arendse en Veronique Jephtas, naamlik Swatland (2021) en Soe Rond Ommie Bos (2021) – met beide bundels wat in Kaaps, ‘n ongestandaardiseerde Afrikaanse variëteit, geskryf is. Kritiese universiteitstudies en James Scott se begrip van transkripsies word ingespan as die leidende leesbrille waardeur daar oor ‘n toekomstige vorm van die Afrikaanse universiteit, naamlik die African-Afrikaanse universiteit, besin en bepeins word. Die nuwe skripsie van dié universiteit sluit in dat dit anti-rassisties, anti-neoliberaal, en affektief is – met ‘n konkreet-verruimende vorm van Afrikaans wat dit begrond.
Sleutelwoorde: Suid-Afrikaanse letterkunde; deskriptiewe vertaalstudie; self-vertaling; Antjie Krog; Lady Anne; Toury; Lambert en Van Gorp; totale teks.
university from two angles. First, the university is seen as being in a state of emergency.
Second, the university is a state of emergency. Both these readings, we argue, are
deployed to uncritically advance the dominance of techno-rationality within higher
education in South Africa and elsewhere, which places the social justice possibilities of
the university at a distance from itself. A key task of decentred critical university studies
(DCUS) is to provide, amongst others, a disclosing critique of these processes as a basis
on which alternative praxes can be imagined. The paper conceptualises the contours of a
possible DCUS approach, drawing on the notions of emancipation, emergence,
conviviality, and incompleteness in relation to the Africanisation, decolonisation, and
Southern knowledges nexus—further differentiating it from critical university studies in
the Anglo-American context.