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Derek Attridge
Lyric Poetry and Community Good
Kaaps and the Cape Flats
Recent years have seen a campaign to advance the status of Kaaps, the language spoken by the coloured community of the Cape Flats but long considered a dialect of Afrikaans. An important element in this endeavour has been the publication of lyric poetry in Kaaps, which is read both by members of the community, who can identify with it as a form of protest but also as a source of pride, and by middle-class white readers, who may gain from it an enhanced appreciation of the culture of this community.
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Lyric Poetry and Community Good
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Kaaps and the Cape Flats
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Derek Attridge
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Recent years have seen a campaign to advance the status of Kaaps, the language spoken by the coloured community of the Cape Flats but long considered a dialect of Afrikaans. An important element in this endeavour has been the publication of lyric poetry in Kaaps, which is read both by members of the community, who can identify with it as a form of protest but also as a source of pride, and by middle-class white readers, who may gain from it an enhanced appreciation of the culture of this community.
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Berlin
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ICI Berlin Press
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28 October 2024
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Kaaps
coloured community
Cape Flats
lyric poetry
Afrikaans
Trantraal
Kamfer
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© by the author(s)
Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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en-GB
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159
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181
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Rethinking Lyric Communities, ed. by Irene Fantappiè, Francesco Giusti, and Laura Scuriatti, Cultural Inquiry, 30 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2024), pp. 159–81
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