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dorp

(dôrp)

n. South African

A small town.

[Afrikaans, from Middle Dutch; see treb- in Indo-European roots.]

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dorp

(dɔːp)

(Human Geography) archaic or South African a small town or village

[C16: from Dutch: village; related to thorp]

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dorp

(dɔrp)

n.

a village; hamlet.

[1560–70; < Dutch; c. thorp]

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noun (S. African) town, village, settlement, municipality a South African farm girl born in a dorp called Benoni

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Stephen Black's novel The Dorp (1920) is one of a body of fictional works that have unjustifiably suffered critical neglect in South Africa.

Recognition for Black's novel The Dorp is limited to passing comments in literary historiographies, for example in Christopher Heywood's A History of South African Literature (114).

Cultural conflict and shifting identities in Stephen Black's The Dorp (1920)

This exhibition features Ballen's images of the people and places of the dorps, pictures that have been described variously as beautiful and brutal, unsettling but always moving, confronting and thought-provoking.

Photography exhibition at the National Library

Bosman's first novel, Jacaranda in the Night, of which his second novel Willemsdorp is a reworking, followed his sojourn (1942-43) as a journalist in the platteland town of Pietersburg in the Northern Transvaal region of South Africa.2 Bosman's fictional dorp (or 'small-town') milieu constitutes more than a mere backveld village: he makes it a microcosm of South African society.

Volksblad reviewer, Wilhelm Gr tter (8) who attended school in Pietersburg in the 1950s, suggested that the novel's evocation of the dorp's atmosphere is "almost tangible".

Willemsdorp by Herman Charles Bosman: the small-town locale as fictional vehicle for commentary on social and moral issues in the South African historical context

In die speurverhaal is die dorp natuurlik ook primer die toneel van misdaad en moord.

Plaasmoord

Soos 'n openbaring het ek toe ek veertien was, die plesier van wreedheid besef; ek het toe nie meer daarin belanggestel om in die dorp rond te Ioop of op die strand krieket te speel nie.

Reis: gebied ongekaart

In de missiepost bij het dorp is pater Versteeg de belangrijkste figuur.

Congo, de missie en de literatuur: over David van Reybrouck, J. G. Schoup en Amaat Vyncke

Vanuit een dorp aan de Hudson Baai begon ik inmiddels brieven te verzenden om in de immense stilte een begin van een gesprek "aan (te) knoop." Weinig kon ik vermoeden dat de aan Breyten gerichte brief nooit zou aankomen, en dus ook niet beantwoord kon worden.