Merrington, P.Oppelt, RiaanDept. of EnglishFaculty of Arts2013-11-212024-10-302009/11/032009/11/032013-11-212024-10-302007https://hdl.handle.net/10566/16440Magister Artium - MALouis 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.enLiteratureHistory and criticismThesisUniversity of the Western Cape