Natuurlijk zijn er ook weer boekrecensies, o.a. over Désanne van Brederode, Toon Tellegen, Gerbrand Bakker en Paul Baeten Gronda.

Lees via deze link de bijdrage "Volksverheffing 2.0", waarin literatuurwetenschapper Kevin Absillis een overzicht geeft van hoe er online over literatuur wordt geschreven en gedebatteerd. Via deze link naar onze blog vindt u ook een versie met hyperlinks naar alle blogs en websites die in dit artikel worden vermeld.


4/13/2010
THE LOW COUNTRIES NO. 18 - 2010
In 2010 it is exactly 100 years since the creation of the Union of South Africa, which later became an independent state within the British Commonwealth. A hundred years on, in 2010, South Africa is hosting the Football World Cup. For many people the World Cup symbolises the spirit of reconciliation that should characterise the new South Africa. And it must also demonstrate that the country is a fully-fledged nation. South Africa has links with the Netherlands, or more precisely with the VOC, the Dutch East India Company. On 6 April 1652 three ships commanded by Jan van Riebeeck landed in Table Bay, where they were to establish a revictualling station for VOC ships rounding the Cape of Good Hope on their way to Batavia. In this yearbook we are talking about South Africa and the Low Countries: how do they view each other nowadays? A South African writer rides her bike through the flat Flemish countryside and notes down what she sees and what happens to her. A Flemish and a Dutch writer who know and love South Africa give their candid opinion. We think about Common Cultural Heritage that is not always ‘shared’. A South African strip-cartoonist is inspired by the clear lines of Tintin. The painter Marlene Dumas has long belonged to the world, but South Africa is still very much alive within her. And then there is Afrikaans, one of South Africa’s eleven official languages. This sister-tongue to Dutch is trying to maintain itself in the Babel that is the Cape. Not for a long time has it been a language exclusive to white Africans – and in fact it never was. The poet Elizabeth Eybers, who moved to the Netherlands in 1961, has written superlatively well about the nostalgia of the emigrant who never arrives anywhere. The verses she wrote in Afrikaans on life as a refugee she has herself later recreated in English. For the rest, in this issue you will find the usual mix of writers, visual artists, theatre people, musicians, intellectuals and architects from the Low Countries. This delta country has known Islam for centuries, Belgium continues to tinker with itself and in 2010 Congo, the one genuine colony the country ever had, will mark half a century of independence. South Africa and Congo: the continent where mankind was born still resonates in the Low Countries.


2/23/2010
SEPTENTRION NO. 1, 2010



2/8/2010
ONS ERFDEEL, NR. 1, 2010
Lees via deze link de bijdrage "Intrigerend Europa", die Hendrik Vos schreef naar aanleiding van Luuk van Middelaars boek De passage naar Europa.