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    n Ondersoek na die volkskundige waarde van die Versamelde Werke van C.J. Langenhoven
    (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1997) Viljoen, Lorraine; Burden, Matilda; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of History.
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this investigation was to recreate the image of an era, the era of C. J. Langenhoven, using the folkloristic elements in his Collected Works. It also attempts to demonstrate how he was at the same time a product and co-creator of that era . The civilization and culture of his time contributed to create the person and the artist, who gave back that which he received, in an enriched form, the form of literature. The contents of this study focusses on the cultural conditions in which Langenhoven functioned. The way in which the folk language is expressed in his Collected Works is examined. The Western European heritage of folk beliefs transferred to this continent of Africa is reflected in his work in an essentially folkloristic way. Langenhoven's struggle for the recognition of his language, Afrikaans, is legendary. That same language, those same social cultural and economic conditions have yet again become controversial, on the threshold of of new millennium. His literary heritage is an image of his own times. It also becomes an image of an emotional value, a distinctive culture, in which the Afrikaans speaker of the 1990's can still recognize himself. Langenhoven guides his readers in an exploration of their cultural roots and their history. He provokes them to preserve, to nourish those roots, so that they are not lost, but continue to grow, both in scope and in intensity.