Yves T’sjoen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4079321 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yves T’sjoen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yves |
| FAMILY NAME | T’sjoen |
| SIGNATURE | T’SJOEN Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0714-8919 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Against Isolation
This research report pushes back against isolationist accounts of linguistic autonomy, not only in Afrikaans, but across languages and literary traditions. Starting with a focus on recent interactions between Afrikaans and Dutch literary polysystems (both in the Netherlands and Flanders), it combines a critical perspective on ‘minor literatures’ with methods based in functional literary and cultural interactions. I propose a generalisable transve…
The Pan-African Gorée Institute at Thirty
Amid mounting assaults on political freedom and self-determination – both on the African continent and further afield, the work of the Pan-African Gorée Institute for Democracy, Development and Culture in Africa is more urgent than ever. This article reflects on the first thirty years of the Institute’s existence. It pays special attention to gorin ’s creative projects, developed under the motto ‘Imagine Africa’, and reflects on South African poe…
Nuwe stemme 6 (Bibi Slippers en Charl-Pierre Naudé)
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices.
Breyten Breytenbachs poëzie in Raster
From 1969 until 1972 the South-African writer and graphic artist Breyten Breytenbach published 29 poems, prose texts and three drawings in the Dutch experimental periodical Raster (first edition: 1967). H. C. ten Berge, writer, poet and Raster's main editor, attributed Breytenbach an unusually prominent position in his magazine. In the Dutch language area of the late sixties and early seventies, Breytenbach was mostly known for his political eng…
Hugo Claus als meervoud. Pleidooi voor een wetenschappelijke documentaire varianteneditie van Claus’ verzamelde poëzie
The selection of a base text for textual edition is not only a matter of literary-historical data or a consideration based on the genetic process or the publishing history of a work of art. Also the poetics or aesthetics of the editor are in some cases decisive for that (final/fundamental) choice. Depending on the poetical ideas of an editor one or another authorized text is chosen for the final edition. In that way the editor’s choice determines…
Schrijven na Auschwitz, na apartheid, na de digital turn
In this paper I discuss the concept of “engaged poetry” and the position of poetry with a so-called ethic dimension in the digital era. Taking the famous aphorism by Theodor W. Adorno as a starting point—“Nach Auschwitz ein Gedicht zu schreiben, ist barbarisch” (“After Auschwitz writing poetry is barbaric”)—and the two different interpretations of that statement formulated by the philosopher himself, I consider the relevance of the term “engaged …
Koloniseren is een smaak die je moet leren’ – Hugo Claus en Het leven en de werken van Leopold II (1970)
The première of Claus’ play Het leven en de werken van Leopold II (The Life and Works of Leopold II), in November 1970 (by the company Nederlandse Comedie), was directed by the author himself. After a second and again rather unsuccessful run (1972–1973, Arena, director: J. Tummers) it disappeared from the stage for nearly thirty years: there was no other production of Claus’ play in the Low Countries until the autumn of 2002 (KVS, director: R. Ru…
Poetry Translations as Legitimation and Recuperation Strategies for Poets
Writers' translations of other writers' literary work can be incorporated into poetry research from an institutional perspective. Even-Zohar's polysystem theory suggests the concept of 'strategic repertory': literary agents (e.g. writers) translate texts from literary systems, not just because they feel poetic or aesthetic affinity towards them, but also and especially because they enable them to stress and/or legitimize their own artistic produc…
J. Bernlef and American Poetry
At the end of the 1950s, Dutch writers made an appeal - with a Dadaist gesture - to close down museums and destroy works of art. The statement by Armando, Hans Sleutelaar and Cor Vaandrager was aimed at bourgeois art which they renounced as elitist and pedantic. Following in the footsteps of Marcel Duchamp and Kurt Schwitters from the Dada movement, the neo-Dadaists wanted to eliminate the dividing line between Art and non-Art in the 1950s and 60…
A Trauma-Theoretical Reading of Hugues C. Pernath's War Poetry
Dominick LaCapra has pointed out that from a trauma-theoretical perspective definitions which are too generally formulated lead to an unstable distinction between victim and commentator. According to LaCapra, the idea that “contemporary culture, or even all history, is essentially traumatic or that everyone in the post-Holocaust context is a survivor” is dubious (LaCapra 2001: x-xii). If LaCapra's findings are interpreted in a narrow sense, only …
Beloken blikvelden in de Lage Landen
The South African poets Ingrid Jonker, Antjie Krog and Ronelda S. Kamfer are part of the literary system of the Low Countries.Their introduction in the Netherlands and Flanders was accomplished by translations into Dutch. An analysis of the role and theimage-building of foreign literature in the Dutch-speaking world is important for (the study of) literary historiography. Thepresence and the reception of the three selected South African poets and…
Zou de wereldbol een beetje aan het leeglopen zijn?’ Herman de Coninck over het Afrikaans en Afrikaner maatschappij, cultuur en politiek
In the institutional context of literature in Flanders Herman de Coninck (1944–97) was an important player (or “actor”). Theauthor is well known as a poet, a literary critic and editor of the Dutch Granta-like magazine Nieuw Wereldtijdschrift (NWT).Academics and essayists have paid much critical attention to de Coninck’s poetics and aesthetic views. In a recent anthology of Flemish poetry since the sixties, Hotel New Flandres (2008), he is called…
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Zou de wereldbol een beetje aan het leeglopen zijn?’ Herman de Coninck over het Afrikaans en Afrikaner maatschappij, cultuur en politiek
In the institutional context of literature in Flanders Herman de Coninck (1944–97) was an important player (or “actor”). Theauthor is well known as a poet, a literary critic and editor of the Dutch Granta-like magazine Nieuw Wereldtijdschrift (NWT).Academics and essayists have paid much critical attention to de Coninck’s poetics and aesthetic views. In a recent anthology of Flemish poetry since the sixties, Hotel New Flandres (2008), he is called…
A Trauma-Theoretical Reading of Hugues C. Pernath's War Poetry
Dominick LaCapra has pointed out that from a trauma-theoretical perspective definitions which are too generally formulated lead to an unstable distinction between victim and commentator. According to LaCapra, the idea that “contemporary culture, or even all history, is essentially traumatic or that everyone in the post-Holocaust context is a survivor” is dubious (LaCapra 2001: x-xii). If LaCapra's findings are interpreted in a narrow sense, only …
Beloken blikvelden in de Lage Landen
The South African poets Ingrid Jonker, Antjie Krog and Ronelda S. Kamfer are part of the literary system of the Low Countries.Their introduction in the Netherlands and Flanders was accomplished by translations into Dutch. An analysis of the role and theimage-building of foreign literature in the Dutch-speaking world is important for (the study of) literary historiography. Thepresence and the reception of the three selected South African poets and…
J. Bernlef and American Poetry
At the end of the 1950s, Dutch writers made an appeal - with a Dadaist gesture - to close down museums and destroy works of art. The statement by Armando, Hans Sleutelaar and Cor Vaandrager was aimed at bourgeois art which they renounced as elitist and pedantic. Following in the footsteps of Marcel Duchamp and Kurt Schwitters from the Dada movement, the neo-Dadaists wanted to eliminate the dividing line between Art and non-Art in the 1950s and 60…
Breyten Breytenbachs poëzie in Raster
From 1969 until 1972 the South-African writer and graphic artist Breyten Breytenbach published 29 poems, prose texts and three drawings in the Dutch experimental periodical Raster (first edition: 1967). H. C. ten Berge, writer, poet and Raster's main editor, attributed Breytenbach an unusually prominent position in his magazine. In the Dutch language area of the late sixties and early seventies, Breytenbach was mostly known for his political eng…
Hugo Claus als meervoud. Pleidooi voor een wetenschappelijke documentaire varianteneditie van Claus’ verzamelde poëzie
The selection of a base text for textual edition is not only a matter of literary-historical data or a consideration based on the genetic process or the publishing history of a work of art. Also the poetics or aesthetics of the editor are in some cases decisive for that (final/fundamental) choice. Depending on the poetical ideas of an editor one or another authorized text is chosen for the final edition. In that way the editor’s choice determines…
Schrijven na Auschwitz, na apartheid, na de digital turn
In this paper I discuss the concept of “engaged poetry” and the position of poetry with a so-called ethic dimension in the digital era. Taking the famous aphorism by Theodor W. Adorno as a starting point—“Nach Auschwitz ein Gedicht zu schreiben, ist barbarisch” (“After Auschwitz writing poetry is barbaric”)—and the two different interpretations of that statement formulated by the philosopher himself, I consider the relevance of the term “engaged …
Koloniseren is een smaak die je moet leren’ – Hugo Claus en Het leven en de werken van Leopold II (1970)
The première of Claus’ play Het leven en de werken van Leopold II (The Life and Works of Leopold II), in November 1970 (by the company Nederlandse Comedie), was directed by the author himself. After a second and again rather unsuccessful run (1972–1973, Arena, director: J. Tummers) it disappeared from the stage for nearly thirty years: there was no other production of Claus’ play in the Low Countries until the autumn of 2002 (KVS, director: R. Ru…
Poetry Translations as Legitimation and Recuperation Strategies for Poets
Writers' translations of other writers' literary work can be incorporated into poetry research from an institutional perspective. Even-Zohar's polysystem theory suggests the concept of 'strategic repertory': literary agents (e.g. writers) translate texts from literary systems, not just because they feel poetic or aesthetic affinity towards them, but also and especially because they enable them to stress and/or legitimize their own artistic produc…
Nuwe stemme 6 (Bibi Slippers en Charl-Pierre Naudé)
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices.
The Pan-African Gorée Institute at Thirty
Amid mounting assaults on political freedom and self-determination – both on the African continent and further afield, the work of the Pan-African Gorée Institute for Democracy, Development and Culture in Africa is more urgent than ever. This article reflects on the first thirty years of the Institute’s existence. It pays special attention to gorin ’s creative projects, developed under the motto ‘Imagine Africa’, and reflects on South African poe…
Against Isolation
This research report pushes back against isolationist accounts of linguistic autonomy, not only in Afrikaans, but across languages and literary traditions. Starting with a focus on recent interactions between Afrikaans and Dutch literary polysystems (both in the Netherlands and Flanders), it combines a critical perspective on ‘minor literatures’ with methods based in functional literary and cultural interactions. I propose a generalisable transve…
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