%0 Journal Article
%T Wachten op de barbaren: Metageschiedenis in het werk van Peter Blum
%A S Huigen
%J Tydskrif vir letterkunde
%D 2013
%I University of Pretoria
%X Waiting for the Barbarians: Metahistory in the oeuvre of Peter Blum This article explores metahistory in the poetry of Peter Blum. In many of Blum¡¯s poems Western civilisation is confronted with the forces of barbarism, without civilisation necessarily being given preference over barbarism. By focussing on the metahistorical aspects of Blum¡¯s work, it is possible to illuminate the dialectical relationships between apparently disparate cultural domains in his work¡ªpast and present, Europe and South Africa¡ªwhich critics up till now have treated as self-contained entities. From this angle, Blum appears to be a poet who was highly critical of white South African culture of the 1950s.
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