Project
The Karretjie People of the Karoo
This play centres on the harsh and challenging world of the itinerant group of sheep shearers in the Karoo who have now virtually disappeared.
Project
The whiteness of Afrikaans literary feminism
In (Black Afrikaans poet) Ronelda Kamfer’s collection Chinatown(2019), she criticises canonical Afrikaans white women poets for their implied complicity with apartheid and continued white hegemony within the Afrikaans literary sphere.
Project
A History of South African Literature - Afrikaans Literature since 1930
The third volume concluding my comprehensive, novel history of South-African/Afrikaans literature explores the period from the 1930s onwards.
Publication
The triumph of Afrikaans fiction
Attridge, Derek. 2018. The triumph of Afrikaans fiction. Public Books. http://www.publicbooks.org/the-triumph-of-afrikaans-fiction/
Project
World Literature, Minor Languages, and the Art of Translation: The Example of Afrikaans
By examining a number of literary works which were published in both Afrikaans and English in the past 25 years in the context of recent studies of the question of translation and world literature, this project will attempt to answer such questions as: Does translation of literary works into major languages represent a danger for the future of minor languages?