Sestigers
Illustration — Brink in 1999 The Sestigers (Sixtiers), also known as the Beweging van Sestig ("the movement of the sixties"), were a dissident literary movement of Afrikaans-language poets and writers in South Africa under apartheid. The movement was started in the beachside Cape Town suburb of Clifton during the early 1960s by André Brink and Breyten Breytenbach, under the mentorship of Uys Krige and Jack Cope, and in continuation of a tradition in South African literature pioneered in the 1920s by Roy Campbell, William Plomer, and Laurens van der Post. The Sestigers sought to elevate Afrikaans as a literary language and use it as a medium for speaking truth to power against the extreme Afrikaner nationalist and white supremacist National Party and its policies of both Apartheid and censorship in South Africa.
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Illustration — Brink in 1999 The Sestigers (Sixtiers), also known as the Beweging van Sestig ("the movement of the sixties"), were a dissident literary movement of Afrikaans-language poets and writers in South Africa under apartheid. The movement was started in the beachside Cape Town suburb of Clifton during the early 1960s by André Brink and Breyten Breytenbach, under the mentorship of Uys Krige and Jack Cope, and in continuation of a tradition in South African literature pioneered in the 1920s by Roy Campbell, William Plomer, and Laurens van der Post. The Sestigers sought to elevate Afrikaans as a literary language and use it as a medium for speaking truth to power against the extreme Afrikaner nationalist and white supremacist National Party and its policies of both Apartheid and censorship in South Africa.
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Die Sestigers also included Reza de Wet, Etienne Leroux, Jan Rabie, Ingrid Jonker, Adam Small, Bartho Smit, Chris Barnard, Hennie Aucamp, Dolf van Niekerk, Abraham H. de Vries, and Elsa Joubert. These writers had often studied abroad (mainly in Paris) and under the widespread influence of existentialism attempted to face the innocent writing of Afrikaans literature. Thus they aimed at a dissident literature in both prose and poetry by emulating both European literary modernism and postmodernism to tackle the political, cultural, and sexual problems of South Africa under apartheid and eventually led to a phenomenal growth in the Afrikaans art in later decades. Gardner has called the prose and poetry of die Sestigers, "literature in exile in its own country". In her biography of dissident poet Ingrid Jonker, Louise Viljoen called die Sestigers, "a cultural revolt within the heart of Afrikanerdom".
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- 1.www.litnet.co.za. Chris Barnard (1939– ). November 2024.
- 2.Heilna du Plooy. Spore in die sand – 'n herbeskouing van die oeuvre van C.M. van den Heever. (Research Articles). English abstract, Dutch text, Critical Essay. Literator: Journal of Literary Criticism, comparative linguistics and literary studies. December 2024.
- 3.ABSA/LitNet Living Legends series. Own a piece of history. 24 November 2004.
- 4.Gardner, Judy H. Impaired Vision: Portraits of Black Women in the Afrikaans Novel. Paul & Co Pub Consortium. 1 April 1992. 9789053830697.
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