Abstract
Summary Focussing on N.P. van Wyk Louw's first two collections of critical essays, Berigte te velde (1939) and Lojale verset (1939), this article considers Louw's recontextualising of the concepts “nation”, “nationalism” and “national literature”. Louw's distinction between a “national” and “colonial” literature is examined in terms of Paul Ricoeur's oppositional analysis of ideology and utopia in his Lectures on Ideology and Utopia (1986). It is argued that these two sets of binary oppositions, supported by subordinate dualisms such as individual/nation and local/universal, formed the intellectual and structural premise of Louw's redefinition of the established Afrikaans critical and creative discourse of the thirties.
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