Desegregating Language: The New Afrikaans Crime Novel.

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  • Author(s): Constantine, Peter
  • Source:
    World Literature Today. Summer2020, Vol. 94 Issue 3, p22-25. 4p. 4 Color Photographs.
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    • Abstract:
      The article talks about crime fiction written in Afrikaans since the end of South Africa's apartheid regime in 1994. Topics discussed include portrayal of police officers and crime investigators as sympathetic protagonists; Deon Meyer as the only internationally best-selling Afrikaans crime-fiction writer and translation of Meyer's books into several languages.