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Misdaadfiksie en die literêre kanon in Afrikaans : ‘n Ondersoek na aanleiding van die romans van Deon Meyer
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2018.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/65615 Misdaadfiksie en die literêre kanon in Afrikaans : ‘n Ondersoek na aanleiding van die romans van Deon Meyer Burger, Willie neil.sneeuleeu.vanheerden@gmail.com Van Heerden, Neil UCTD Humanities theses SDG-16 SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2018. In the wake of a recent boom in South African crime fiction, and recurrent claims that postapartheid crime novels dismantle the old boundaries between so-called “highbrow” and “lowbrow” literature, this thesis investigates the problematic relationship between crime fiction and the literary canon in Afrikaans. It does so by paying specific attention to the novels of Deon Meyer, a popular and widely translated contemporary Afrikaans crime fiction writer, and the canonisation processes affecting his status within the Afrikaans literary system. First, definitions of “the literary canon” and the accompanying mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion implicit in canon formation are discussed theoretically. Then, a number of subsystems are scrutinised (the publishing industry, media practices, translation, scholarship and literary history, literary prizes) in order to gauge Meyer’s relative position within the Afrikaans literary system. Because he is often categorised as a writer of “popular fiction”, problems related to the field of popular fiction are also thrashed out in a separate chapter. A brief historical overview of the development of crime fiction is then offered, as well as a basic typology with definitions of the most prominent crime fiction subgenres evident in Meyer’s work. Issues with genre classification and terminology are also raised. Deon Meyer’s novels are subsequently analysed as examples of what John Cawelti (1976) calls “formula literature” in an attempt to ascertain whether the novels are merely generic expressions of the crime fiction “formulae”, or rather texts that undermine conventional genre expectations. In doing so, the thesis highlights the significant ways in which Deon Meyer’s crime fiction collapses any simplistic distinction between the “popular” and the “literary”, thereby challenging traditional definitions of the literary canon. mz2026 Afrikaans PhD Unrestricted SDG-11: Sustainable cities and communities 2018-07-16T07:53:54Z 2018-07-16T07:53:54Z 2018/04/12 2018 Thesis Van Heerden, N 2018, Misdaadfiksie en die literêre kanon in Afrikaans : ‘n Ondersoek na aanleiding van die romans van Deon Meyer, PhD Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65615> A2018 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65615 en © 2018 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Humanities theses SDG-16 SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions Misdaadfiksie en die literêre kanon in Afrikaans : ‘n Ondersoek na aanleiding van die romans van Deon Meyer |
| title | Misdaadfiksie en die literêre kanon in Afrikaans : ‘n Ondersoek na aanleiding van die romans van Deon Meyer |
| title_full | Misdaadfiksie en die literêre kanon in Afrikaans : ‘n Ondersoek na aanleiding van die romans van Deon Meyer |
| title_fullStr | Misdaadfiksie en die literêre kanon in Afrikaans : ‘n Ondersoek na aanleiding van die romans van Deon Meyer |
| title_full_unstemmed | Misdaadfiksie en die literêre kanon in Afrikaans : ‘n Ondersoek na aanleiding van die romans van Deon Meyer |
| title_short | Misdaadfiksie en die literêre kanon in Afrikaans : ‘n Ondersoek na aanleiding van die romans van Deon Meyer |
| title_sort | misdaadfiksie en die literere kanon in afrikaans n ondersoek na aanleiding van die romans van deon meyer |
| topic | UCTD Humanities theses SDG-16 SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65615 |