This special issue explores how literary genres and narrative forms help to understand the ways in which cultures, groups and individuals relate to each other in moments of transculturation. In offering analyses of various culturally specific transcultural processes in Afrikaans literature, this issue provides a prism on the ways in which transculturation can be thought. It includes contributions that explore transculturation in the context of domestic workers in South Africa (Jansen), in the ramifications of the South African War on Afrikaans women (Krog), in traditions of the epic genre in the South African Number Gangs (Kapp) and in productive feelings of nostalgia in the non-fictional work by Antjie Krog (Robbe). It also discusses the transcultural aspects of mythology in the work of Tertius Kapp (Stuit) and posits violent spaces of transculturation as a possible avenue of productive and imaginative thought (Roux & Nortjé).

Contents: HANNEKE STUIT, Shadow Histories. Transculturation and Narrative in Afrikaans   ENA JANSEN, Histories of the Everyday. Domestic Workers in the South African Literary Archive   ANTJIE KROG, ‘They couldn’t achieve their goal with me’. Telling rape during the South African War   TERTIUS KAPP, The epic and the anti-epic. Myth-making in South Africa's Number gangs   KSENIA ROBBE, Translating Transition. The politics of Nostalgia and Provincialization in Antjie Krog’s A Change of Tongue and Begging to Be Black   HANNEKE STUIT, The Bastardisation of History. Mythology and Transculturation in Tertius Kapp’s Rooiland   ALWYN ROUX/ELIZABETH LOUISE NORTJÉ, Writing dead ends. Notes on Breyten Breytenbach’s open letters to Nelson Mandela   Verschenen op het Platform Boekbeoordelingen