Chapters in this book
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Chapter Coetzee’s Disgrace
(2023)
In this essay I discuss Buikema’s ideas about the specific function of literature in times of social upheaval and political violence. Buikema resists the current tendency to reduce engaged novels to their political views ...
Chapter Aesthetics and politics in contemporary South Africa
(2023)
South Africa is a context within which Rosemarie Buikema has thought deeply and conducted much of her empirical research for her book Revolts in Critique. This contribution pursues some of the ways in which Buikema’s ...
Chapter Reading to reveal the world
(2023)
Following the critical principles as they were articulated in an earlier article on South African literature (Buikema, 2009), the paper discusses a more recent call for literary engagement in the context of contemporary ...
Chapter Tussen marge en middelpunt – voormoeders van genderstudies in Utrecht
(2023)
In this essay, Berteke Waaldijk outlines the early development of gender studies in Utrecht through the course ‘Between Margin and Centre, Women in Culture and Society’. The course lent itself perfectly to an interdisciplinary ...
Chapter Nederlandse Southern Gothic
(2023)
This article presents a close reading of gothic features in Simone Atangana Bekono’s novella Zo hoog de zon stond (‘As high as the sun stood’, 2022). This analysis serves as a way to comment on recent academic debates about ...