Die uitbou van ’n eens marginale tradisie: Marlise Joubert se gebruik van vroulike taal

Abstract

It has already been shown that female poets play an important role in the Afrikaans literary  system, after the domination by a male tradition had relegated the female system to a marginal position. Female poets came to the fore since the 1970s and took up a stronger and more central position within the system. This article strives to investigate the further consolidation of this female Afrikaans tradition, especially with reference to the volume Passies en passasies (“Passions and Passages”, 2007) by Marlise Joubert. In particular, this article wants to investigate whether specific aspects of Joubert’s work, apart from the exploitation of female topics, are responsible for the appeal by critics for a stronger position for Joubert within the literary system. The following hypothesis forms the basis for the investigation: Joubert employs an authenticfemale language in her poetry, and this leads to the consolidation of the Afrikaans female tradition.