Werkwinkel, 2009, vol. 4(1)
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Item Review of Patrycja Matusz-Protasiewicz Integracja z zachowaniem własnej tożsamości: Holenderska polityka wobec imigrantów [Integratie met behoud van eigen identiteit: Nederlands immigratiebeleid] Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, 2008 271 pp. ISBN 978-83-229-2951-3(Department of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of English, 2009) Topolska, UrszulaItem Review of Aleksandra Lipińska Wewnętrzne światło: Południowoniderlandzka rzeźba alabastrowa w Europie środkowo-wschodniej [Het innerlijke licht: Zuid-Nederlandse albasten beeldhouwkunst in Centraal- en Midden-Europa] Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, Wrocław, 2007 580 pp. ISBN 8322928890(Department of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of English, 2009) Sikora-Sabat, AnnaItem De Zendingspost Genadendal als bijzonderheid van het negentiende-eeuwse Zuid-Afrika(Department of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of English, 2009) Potocki-Waksmund, RadosławThe missionary society of Moravian Brethren managed to create a prosperous Christian community of indigenous people in South Africa in the 19th century. Their mission station “Genadendal”, which came to be a flourishing center of economy and education in the Cape colony at that time, attracted many distinguished visitors from the Cape as well as from abroad. They witnessed the development of the settlement and observed the organization of life with its inhabitants. The missionaries guests kept their own travel diaries, where they recorded their observations concerning their visits to Genadendal. The diaries of the travelers bring to light the whole process of cultural transformation of the Khoi people who inhabited the settlement. At the same time these accounts seem to differ from the missionaries memoirs in that they offer a new perspective from which to view the activity of Moravian Brethren in their most prominent South African mission station. Nevertheless, the visitors narratives should be analyzed with great caution since they may contain social and political prejudices related to their colonial mentality. In this paper, I shall try to present a collective image of Genadendal as it emerges from the travelers diaries in the 19th century.Item Het handelsmerk Zuid-Afrika: Enkele overpeinzingen rondom de toeristische berichtgeving(Department of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of English, 2009) Zajas, PawełThe article analyses the rhetoric of Polish photos and tourist advertisements concerning the South African Republic. It demonstrates the discrepancy between the strategies implemented by South African state organizations (International Marketing Council) and the picture of South Africa abroad – in Poland in this case. A claim is made that the Republic of South Africa advertised as tourist space has nothing to do with the visual identity of the country as it is promoted by the International Marketing Council which emphasizes the post-1994 democratic changes and the country’s interculturality.Item Review of Agnieszka Rosales Rodriguez Śladami dawnych mistrzów. Mit Holandii złotego wieku w XIX-wiecznej kulturze artystycznej [In de voetsporen van oude meesters. De mythe van de Nederlandse Gouden Eeuw in de 19de eeuwse artistieke cultuur] Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2008 pp. 297. ISBN 978-83-235-0488-7(Department of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of English, 2009) Sikora-Sabat, AnnaItem Children’s Work in Southern Africa(Department of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of English, 2009) Bourdillon, Michael F.C.This article questions the applicability of international standards on children’s work to such situations as are found in South Africa. Differing contexts affect ideas of what is appropriate for children. Although South Africa has a developed economy and technology and aspires to full participation in the developed world, poverty remains a problem, as does quality and accessibility of schooling. These factors, together with different cultural views on children and growing up, affect experiences of childhood and of school, making them very different from the experiences of young people in the developed world. Although few children in South Africa are in regular paid employment, those undertaking part-time paid work often see this as a positive feature in their lives, while many find that unpaid work in the home can be a problem. Such children doing useful part-time paid work, as well as those doing excessive work in their homes, need protection and support, yet escape attention in international discourse on abolishing ‘child labour.’Item Review of Andrzej Borowski Iter Polono-Belgo-Ollandicum: Cultural and Literary Relationships between the Commonwealth of Poland and the Netherlands in the 16th and 17th Centuries Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, 2007 216 pp. ISBN 978-83-7188-951-6(Department of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of English, 2009) Sikora-Sabat, AnnaItem Review of Maciej Ząbek Biali i Czarni. Postawy Polaków wobec Afryki i Afrykanów [Blanken en Zwarten. Houding van Polen tegenover Afrika en Afrikanen] [Studia Ethnologica 7]. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo DiG, 2007 pp. 482, ISBN 83-7181-461-5; 978-83-7181-461-7(Department of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of English, 2009) Czarnecka, BożenaItem Review of Hermann Giliomee en Lawrence Schlemmer ’n Vaste plek vir Afrikaans: Taaluitdagings op kampus Stellenbosch: Sun Press, 2006 258 pp. ISBN 1-920109-16-1(Department of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of English, 2009) Brits, KarienItem Untold Stories and Disconnectedness. The Dilemma of Conscript Veterans of the Bush War(Department of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of English, 2009) Gibson, DianaThis exploratory article scrutinizes the ways in which 12 white Afrikaansspeaking former conscripts - who experienced combat during the long-drawn-out lowintensity war along the border between Angola and Namibia – understand, give meaning to and deal with their violent conflict experiences in the context of political change in South Africa. The article highlights some of the predicaments faced by men who had seen and done violence during a war that has been remained largely undisclosed to the public. The former conflict is also increasingly reinterpreted as having been unjust. The paper argues that Afrikaner identity has long been constructed as somehow ‘spoiled’ and that this affects the ways in which ex-combatants can express their memories and lived experiences of the war. Yet veterans are increasingly creating ways in which to , as remembering subjects, are nonetheless slowly finding ways to redistribute their experiences in an effort to make sense of the past.Item “Come Rap for the Planet”: Matters of Life and Death in Nadine Gordimer’s Get a Life (2005)(Department of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of English, 2009) Szczurek, Karina MagdalenaGet a Life (2005) is Nadine Gordimer’s latest and probably last novel. As some of its reviewers have suggested, it is not a major addition to her oeuvre. However, its significance lies in its activist thrust as the first truly ‘green’ novel published in postapartheid South Africa. Using a basic ecocritical approach, the following essay exposes the eco-conscious character of the book. Furthermore, it shows how the novel engages in some crucial contemporary debates in the South African public sphere and situates them in the global context of the 21st century. At the same time, by looking at some of Gordimer’s short stories written around the time of publication of Get a Life and primarily at the novel itself, this essay analyses how the author explores the topics of ageing and natural death as well as the need to leave a trace of one’s life beyond physical existence.Item De “Bruidegom Balling” – de negatieve beeldvorming van de Engelse troonpretendent James Francis Stuart (1688-1766) in de Amsterdamsche Argus(Department of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of English, 2009) Urbaniak, JanThis article aims to focus on one of the eighteenth-century satirical periodicals, called the Amsterdamsche Argus (1718-1720). The concept of this periodical implies a number of issues, which, besides its literary value, have mainly an important social impact. This social impact should be described in the frame of a typical eighteen century phenomenon, known as the ‘moral reorientation’ [morele heroriëntatie]. The Amsterdamsche Argus achieves this reorientation strengthening the Dutch sense of superiority, which corresponds in the periodical with satirical, sarcastic criticism on characteristics and behaviors of other nations, such as the English debauchery, extravagance and vanity described in this article. This criticism concentrates mostly on the upper class (aristocracy) as opposed to an image of an unostentatious middle-class man. The critical view of the periodical has also a religious background: the Amsterdamsche Argus takes part in ‘the confessional debate’ – a conflict between the Catholic and Protestant church in the eighteenth century. The periodical tries to emphasize the value of the Protestants and depreciates or ridicules the Catholics.Item Het Leidse wonder: Boekhandel en uitgeverij in Leiden rond 1600(Department of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of English, 2009) Hoftijzer, P.C.This article describes the miraculous rise of printing and bookselling in Leiden at the end of the sixteenth century. Whereas for much of the century the local book trade was languishing, from 1574 onwards numerous printers and booksellers established themselves in Leiden, most of them coming from abroad. Various explanations are given for this development. One is the end of a siege of Leiden by Spanish troops in 1574, as a result of which the city gained a new impetus. Economically, Leiden witnessed a boom period through the expansion of the cloth industry, which benefitted from the influx of many thousands of religious and economic refugees from the South. Another factor was the creation, on the initiative of such influential local administrators as Janus Dousa and Jan van Hout, of Leiden University in 1575, a modern academic establishment which attracted not only professors and students, but soon also printers and booksellers. Finally, the role of the Leiden branch of the Officina Plantiniana (active 1583-1619) is emphasized. The most prominent book trade establishment in town, the firm set an example for both contemporary and future printers and booksellers.Item Review of Peter D. McDonald The Literature Police: Apartheid, Censorship and Its Cultural Consequences(Department of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of English, 2009) Kannemeyer, J.C.Item Review of Siegfried Huigen, red. De Gids: Plaatsen van Afrikaner herinnering Amsterdam: Balans, 2008 (november-december) 142 pp. ISBN 978-90-5018-9354(Department of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of English, 2009) Renders, LucItem Review of Eep Francken en Olf Praamstra, samenstellers Heerengracht, Zuid-Afrika: Nederlandse literatuur van Zuid-Afrika Amsterdam/Antwerpen: Uitgeverij Contact, 2008. 416 pp. ISBN 978 90 254 1846 5(Department of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of English, 2009) Dynarowicz, EwaItem Review of Nigel Penn The Forgotten Frontier: Colonist and Khoisan on the Cape’s Northern Frontier in the 18th Century Athens OH, Cape Town: Ohio University Press, Double Storey Books, 2005. pp. 388. ISBN 0-8214-1682-0 (USA), 1-77013-026-8 (SAR)(Department of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of English, 2009) Leśniewski, Michał