Werkwinkel, 2012, vol. 7(2)
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Item Review: Ungarn, das gesegneteste Land Europas: Das Ungarnbild der niederländischen Reisebeschreibungen (1555-1774)(Department of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of English, 2012) Huigen, SiegfriedReview of: Zsuzsanna Ablonczyné-Nádor Ungarn, das gesegneteste Land Europas: Das Ungarnbild der niederländischen Reisebeschreibungen (1555-1774) Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag, 2011 340 pp. ISBN 978-3-631-61488-4Item Tenderness is Peril: An interview with Maja Kleczewska(Department of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of English, 2012) Semenowicz, DorotaItem In memoriam JOHN KANNEMEYER (1939-2011)(Department of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of English, 2012) Viljoen, LouiseItem The Ethico-Politics of Autobiographical Writings:J. M. Coetzee’s Boyhood, Youth and Summertime(Department of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of English, 2012) Grzęda, PaulinaConfessional writing in English has been burgeoning in South Africa over the past two decades. Covering a wide social range, autobiographies of novelists to political leaders, social activists and journalists, artists and scientists have all contributed to forging a considerable repertoire of individual testimonies making up the inclusive history of South African society. Outside of the instrumentalising context of the resistance struggle, in the wake of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s dissuasive tendency to subsume personal testimonies within the hegemonic national discourse of forgiveness and reconciliation, the current publishers’ increased interest in individual testimonies should not come as a surprise. Indeed, the contemporary proliferation of autobiographical writings can be seen as intrinsically embedded in the general tendency of post-millennial South African fiction to turn from the public sphere towards the private one, to reclaim space for auto-critique, self-questioning and expression of personal grief. With particular reference to the trilogy of fictionalized memoirs by J.M. Coetzee, Boyhood (1997), Youth (2002) and Summertime (2009), this article offers a detailed analysis of J.M. Coetzee’s contribution to the flourishing field of South African autobiographical writing. While acknowledging the discursive shift towards the personal domain, this paper argues that Coetzee’s works maintain the principles of ‘committed’ writing, working largely at the level of personal ethico-political responsibility of resistance against any spiritually oppressive systems. It is through Coetzee’s formal experimentation, through the author’s radical disruption of the discourses of the autobiographical genre, what Jane Poyner terms “acts of genre,” rather than through his works’ substance, that Coetzee manages to counteract established discourses and in doing so, restores the richness of South African intellectual life, which was severely regulated and stifled under apartheid.Item Life Below the Equator: An interview with Krzysztof Warlikowski(Department of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of English, 2012) Gruszczyński, PiotrItem Voluntary Opacity: On Action and Gaining Voice (I): An interview with Derek Attridge(Department of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of English, 2012) Rapior, WaldemarItem In memoriam JOHN KANNEMEYER (1939-2011) “he, he, the he he calls sometimes you, sometimes I” (Na)Pisane życie / ’n Geskryfde Lewe / A Life in Writing(Department of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of English, 2012) Koch, JerzyItem An Ordinary Man: An interview with Nicholas Lens(Department of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of English, 2012) Semenowicz, DorotaItem Beyond Conventions: The Nomadic Smooth Space in J.M. Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K(Department of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of English, 2012) Karwowska, KatarzynaThis article traces the processes governing the creation of literary places in J.M. Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K. The recognition of elements characteristic of pastoral, anti-pastoral and post-pastoral modes of spatial organisation in renderings of the City of Cape Town and the South African countryside constitutes the point of departure for the analysis. Conventional patterns are questioned and subverted, and ultimately proven unfit for the representation of the moments of social and political distress in late twentieth century South Africa. The novel’s protagonist suggestively navigates the interpretation process into the field of postmodern theories of space. The distinction between ‘smooth’ and ‘striated’ space proposed by French philosophers Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze establishes a revealing set of correspondences and evinces previously uncovered exegetic layers of the narrative.Item Popularizing South African Wars in Poland: Joint review of recent publications concerning South African History(Department of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of English, 2012) Leśniewski, MichałItem Poland and The Netherlands: A Case Study of European Relations(Department of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of English, 2012) Sterckx, JoReview of: Duco Hellema, Ryszard Żelichowski, Bert van der Zwan, eds Poland and The Netherlands: A Case Study of European Relations Dordrecht: Republic of Letters Publishing BV. 2011 314 pp. ISBN 9789089790743Item Coetzee / Beckett(Department of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of English, 2012) Wiśniewski, TomaszThis article presents an analysis of relations between works of J. M. Coetzee and Samuel Beckett. The primary research material covers novels and essays written by the former, and particular attention is given to those essays by Coetzee which deal with writings of Beckett (e.g. “Eight Ways of Looking at Samuel Beckett”). Because Coetzee’s professional interest in Beckett has lasted for over forty years, it enables us to talk about certain shifts in his literary attitudes and evolution of his professional stance. It seems that among the key features which put these two writers together are the following: their profound belief in the integrity of form (style) and content, their fascination with philosophical dualism and existential homelessness, and, finally, their skeptical attitude towards the academic world.Item Back to the Roots? Forming New Concepts of Women’s Identity in Contemporary Postcolonial Literature Written by Women in Dutch and Afrikaans(Department of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of English, 2012) Kuhn, KarenReview: Back to the Roots? Forming New Concepts of Women’s Identity in Contemporary Postcolonial Literature Written by Women in Dutch and AfrikaansItem Review: Beatrijs de wereld in Vertalingen en bewerkingen van het Middelnederlandse verhaal(Department of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of English, 2012) Dowlaszewicz, MałgorzataReview: Beatrijs de wereld in Vertalingen en bewerkingen van het Middelnederlandse verhaalItem Voluntary Opacity: On Action and Gaining Voice (II): An interview with Derek Attridge(Department of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of English, 2012) Mościcki, Paweł