Recent Dutch-Language Publications Poeze, Harry A
Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde,
06/2022, Letnik:
178, Številka:
2-3
Journal Article, Book Review
Recent Dutch-Language Publications Poeze, Harry A
Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde,
07/2021, Letnik:
177, Številka:
2-3
Journal Article, Book Review
Oraties als barometer Grüttemeier, Ralf
Internationale neerlandistiek,
07/2019, Letnik:
57, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
While Dutch literary studies are in a critical situation according to many, this is less often heard with regard to Dutch linguistics. Against this background, the article analyses recent inaugural ...lectures of Dutch literary scholars (from the Netherlands and from Germany) with regard to types of knowledge-production that can be taken from these lectures. It turns out that the accumulation of specific disciplinary knowledge does not seem to be the dominant programme of literary studies of modern Dutch literature in the Netherlands.
In the uchronic novel with dystopian/(post)apocalyptic features Zee Nu (Sea Now) by Dutch philosopher Eva Meijer (2022) the Netherlands is submerged by an exceptional high tide that does not recede. ...The government reacts slowly and inadequately: the country is flooded and the surviving Dutch become climate refugees in Germany and Belgium. A scientist, an activist and a young writer embark on a boat (later on, with a dog too) in order to uncover the causes of this extreme phenomenon and to pay tribute to dead people, animals and to the devastated ecosystems. In this article I focus on how the novel fictionalizes environmental issues and foregrounds key issues of contemporary philosophers of the Anthropocene as Bruno Latour and Donna Haraway: the relationship between human and nonhuman, the agency of nonhuman and the ethics of response-ability.
The Dutch colonial past in Indonesia has had a major influence on literature. In this edited volume the Dutch East Indies literature is systematically viewed for the first time from a postcolonial ...perspective. Each essays starts with an introduction about the author's life and his or her relationship with the Dutch East Indies or Indonesia, after which one or more novels are analysed. In addition to famous authors such as Louis Couperus, E. du Perron and Marion Bloem, less well-known writers are also discussed. Recurring points of interest are the representation of the unequal colonial power relations and the European strategies with which the 'Other' was marginalized. ‘De postkoloniale spiegel’ provides an innovative overview of more than 160 years of Dutch East Indies literary history.
Fiction has a major social impact, not least because it co-shapes the image that society has of various social groups. Drawing on a collection of 170 contemporary Dutch-language novels, Character ...Constellations presents a range of data-driven, statistical models to study depictions of characters in terms of gender, race, ethnicity, class, age, sexuality, and other identity categories. Incorporating the tools of network analysis, each chapter highlights an aspect of fictional social networks that affects the representation of social groups: their centrality, their communities, and their conflicts. While reading individual novels in light of emerging statistical patterns, combining the formal methods of social network analysis with the interpretive tools of narratology, this study shows how central societal themes such as (in)equality and emancipation, integration and segregation, and social mobility and class struggle are foregrounded, replicated, or distorted in the Dutch novel. Showcasing what character-based critiques of literary representation gain by integrating data-driven methods into the practice of critical close reading, Character Constellations contributes to societal debates on cultural representation and identity and the role fiction and art have in those debates.
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