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    The valley trilogy: a reading of C. Loius Leipoldt's English-language fiction circa 1925-1935
    (University of the Western Cape, 2007) Oppelt, Riaan; Merrington, P.; Dept. of English; Faculty of Arts
    Louis Leipoldt is known as a canonical figure in the history of Afrikaans poetry, He is customarily included in the pantheon of writers such as C.J. Langenhoven who not only established Afrikaans as a standardized national language in the early twentieth century, but also contributed to the idea of the Afrikaner Volk as a distinct nation within South Africa. The recent publication of Leipoldt's Valley Trilogy, three novels written in English in the 1930's now reveals Leipoldt in a very different light. Today, in a time of national transformation, Leipoldt's liberal ideas deserve to be given the broader scope he had intended for them.