Helize Van Vuuren
Biographic Data
| ID | 6003291 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helize Van Vuuren |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helize |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Vuuren |
| SIGNATURE | VAN VUUREN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nelson Mandela University |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-8611-088X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
No Cold Kitchen. A Biography of Nadine Gordimer (Ronald Suresh Roberts)
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
Die enigmatiese aard van die trieksterfiguur in Ingrid Winterbach se Niggie
This article explores the enigmatic nature of tricksters in Ingrid Winterbach’s Niggie (Cousin, 2002), as manifested in everyday life through the supernatural and the unconscious (for instance in dreams). In this way some of the puzzling aspects of this magisterial novel are clarified. Early in Niggie the reader is confronted with a trickster figure in the form of a dream figure, the red haired woman with the little feather hat, who appears in th…
Jy is die vertolker’: Die lewensloop van Adam Small
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
Thomas Pringle (1789-1834) en die Boesmans
Pringle's Bushmen poems, his short story about Pangola and his autobiography, Narrative of Residence in South Africa (1835) offer particularly interesting, often conflicting, perspectives on the situation of the Eastern Cape Bushmen in the early nineteenth century. As a gentleman settler farmer, minor Romantic poet and a pro-abolition journalist his views of the Bushmen changed as easily as so many different cloaks around the shoulder. Born in th…
Examining the Servant's Subversive Verbal and Non-Verbal Expression in Marlene van Niekerk's Agaat
The power struggle between Milla and Agaat in Marlene van Niekerk's Agaat (2006) is one based in language. While the matriarch's perspective dominates the novel, thereby presumably silencing Agaat, the servant-cum-nurse employs alternative methods of communication, or mimetic gestures, to undermine Milla's point of view. Through verbal and non-verbal measures, Agaat attempts to counteract the dying woman's story. While these communicative measure…
Antjie Krog: Towards a syncretic identity
Krog's striving towards a new syncretic South African identity develops in her later oeuvre on two fronts: thematically in terms of content, and with relation to form, in terms of the increasing use of an African‐based orally orientated poetics. At the basis of her poetics lies the aim to “revolutionise” the language through transgressing taboos, while her “translation as transformation” project is at the basis of a search for a common humanity. …
Labyrinth of loneliness”: Breyten Breytenbach’s prison poetry (1976–1985)
Breytenbach’s prison poetry is first contextualized as part of a South African subgenre that flourished under apartheid, and then interrogated for its specificities: the singular prison conditions under which he wrote, the nature of the poetry, specific leitmotifs in each of the five volumes published between 1976 and 1985. A psychoanalytic approach is indicated to this strong middle phase in his extensive poetical oeuvre, comprising seventeen co…
Plagiaat? Appropriasie? Kulturele oorplanting? Huldiging: Brandende kwessies rondom mondelinge tradisies – Eugène Marais en die San opnuut bekyk
South African literature has a long history of cultural translation or transplantation from the San or Bushman2 oral tradition. This phenomenon of the appropriation of the voice of the extinct San can be traced though all genres, but is especially prevalent in children's books, poetry, and fiction. Through a historical overview of degrees of cultural translation (in all its literary variations) clarification is sought for issues involved in Steph…
Eksperiment en intertekstualiteit in Niggie
This article focuses on the creative adaptation of Anglo-Boer-War material in Ingrid Wnterbach's Niggie [Cousin] (2002) with specific reference to the Oorlogsdagboek van Jan F.E. Celliers, 1899–1902 [War Diary of Jan F.E. Celliers, 1899–1902] (1978). A fascinating substratum of ironic commentary arises as an extra dimension in the novel as a result of the subtly suggested comparison of South African issues and perspectives a century ago with the …
The universal sanctity of whiteness: Antjie Krog's negotiation of black responses to white transformation in a change of tongue
Country of My Skull (1998) emerged out of Antjie Krog's participation as a journalist covering the Truth and Reconciliation proceedings and consists mostly of the collected stories of individual trauma inflicted by the apartheid regime, which are overlaid with her own responses to these graphic details. A Change of Tongue (2003) is more autobiographical and personal than the earlier work, more searching in its negotiation of the complexities and …
Taal moet weerstand bied”: N Verkenning van Niggie
A literary analysis is done of Ingrid Winterbach’s novel Niggie [“Cousin”], with specific focus on the nature and function of Anglo-Boer War material in Winterbach’s text. This novel has a profound effect on the reader a century after the war, because it addresses postcolonial issues and predicaments such as a defragmenting identity, as well as the possible demise of the Afrikaans language and culture, faced by the descendants of those involved i…
Die taal asyn aan die lippe”: N oorsig van Breyten Breytenbach se poësie-oeuvre
In a letter to friends and acquaintances dated September 2002 Breyten Breytenbach declared his final leave-taking of South Africa and Afrikaans, and a refusal to write in his mother tongue any longer. This has brought about the conundrum of Afrikaans’s finest living poet still writing and producing privately, but not discontinuing publishing in Afrikaans (his last collection of poetry was Papierblom [Paper Flower] in 1998). A critical-historical …
“Kuns en Argief” in die Suid‐Afrikaanse skrywers‐outobiografie: Karel Schoeman en J.M.Coetzee
There are parallels in the relationship between historiography and fiction in the oeuvres of Coetzee and Schoeman. A comparative study is undertaken of their auto‐biographical texts within the framework of South African writers’ autobiographies, and on the basis of related motives (problematic mother binding, the status of the subject as outsider, and alternative identities of the self) in Boyhood (Coetzee 1997), Youth (Coetzee 2002) and Die laas…
Vroeë Oos-Kaapse tekste: Andrew Geddes Bain (1797-1864)
Andrew Geddes Bain: fervent letter writer of satirical sketches of contemporary life, transport entrepreneur, military man, farmer, builder of bridges in the dry stone walling technique, autodidact, discoverer of the "Blinkwater Monster" fossil, as well as dramatist of "Kaatje Kekkelbek". Andrew Geddes Bain's journal (1949) offers insights into a fascinating life in the Eastern Cape at the beginning of the eighteenth century. The journal of Bain …
Enlarging the stature of the /Xam
Southern African Literatures
Michael Chapman 1996 London & New York: Longman
Literary historiography / Literatuurgeskiedskrywing
Using several commentaries on my study Southern African Literatures (including those of panellists at the Conference “Literary Studies at the Crossroads") as a point of departure, the article attempts to consider ‐ by analogy ‐ the question of whose story, perhaps whose identity, is relevant to South Africa of the 1990s. It is argued that literary studies ‐ indeed, cultural studies ‐ needs to pursue methods of comparison and translation in breaki…
Introduction: Literary historiography, with specific reference to the problems of the South African context
Prison Letters to a Daughter
Donker weerlig: Literêre opstelle oor die werk van André P. Brink
Jy is die vertolker’: Die lewensloop van Adam Small
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
Labyrinth of loneliness”: Breyten Breytenbach’s prison poetry (1976–1985)
Breytenbach’s prison poetry is first contextualized as part of a South African subgenre that flourished under apartheid, and then interrogated for its specificities: the singular prison conditions under which he wrote, the nature of the poetry, specific leitmotifs in each of the five volumes published between 1976 and 1985. A psychoanalytic approach is indicated to this strong middle phase in his extensive poetical oeuvre, comprising seventeen co…
Donker weerlig: Literêre opstelle oor die werk van André P. Brink
Prison Letters to a Daughter
Introduction: Literary historiography, with specific reference to the problems of the South African context
Southern African Literatures
Michael Chapman 1996 London & New York: Longman
Literary historiography / Literatuurgeskiedskrywing
Using several commentaries on my study Southern African Literatures (including those of panellists at the Conference “Literary Studies at the Crossroads") as a point of departure, the article attempts to consider ‐ by analogy ‐ the question of whose story, perhaps whose identity, is relevant to South Africa of the 1990s. It is argued that literary studies ‐ indeed, cultural studies ‐ needs to pursue methods of comparison and translation in breaki…
Enlarging the stature of the /Xam
“Kuns en Argief” in die Suid‐Afrikaanse skrywers‐outobiografie: Karel Schoeman en J.M.Coetzee
There are parallels in the relationship between historiography and fiction in the oeuvres of Coetzee and Schoeman. A comparative study is undertaken of their auto‐biographical texts within the framework of South African writers’ autobiographies, and on the basis of related motives (problematic mother binding, the status of the subject as outsider, and alternative identities of the self) in Boyhood (Coetzee 1997), Youth (Coetzee 2002) and Die laas…
Vroeë Oos-Kaapse tekste: Andrew Geddes Bain (1797-1864)
Andrew Geddes Bain: fervent letter writer of satirical sketches of contemporary life, transport entrepreneur, military man, farmer, builder of bridges in the dry stone walling technique, autodidact, discoverer of the "Blinkwater Monster" fossil, as well as dramatist of "Kaatje Kekkelbek". Andrew Geddes Bain's journal (1949) offers insights into a fascinating life in the Eastern Cape at the beginning of the eighteenth century. The journal of Bain …
Die taal asyn aan die lippe”: N oorsig van Breyten Breytenbach se poësie-oeuvre
In a letter to friends and acquaintances dated September 2002 Breyten Breytenbach declared his final leave-taking of South Africa and Afrikaans, and a refusal to write in his mother tongue any longer. This has brought about the conundrum of Afrikaans’s finest living poet still writing and producing privately, but not discontinuing publishing in Afrikaans (his last collection of poetry was Papierblom [Paper Flower] in 1998). A critical-historical …
Eksperiment en intertekstualiteit in Niggie
This article focuses on the creative adaptation of Anglo-Boer-War material in Ingrid Wnterbach's Niggie [Cousin] (2002) with specific reference to the Oorlogsdagboek van Jan F.E. Celliers, 1899–1902 [War Diary of Jan F.E. Celliers, 1899–1902] (1978). A fascinating substratum of ironic commentary arises as an extra dimension in the novel as a result of the subtly suggested comparison of South African issues and perspectives a century ago with the …
The universal sanctity of whiteness: Antjie Krog's negotiation of black responses to white transformation in a change of tongue
Country of My Skull (1998) emerged out of Antjie Krog's participation as a journalist covering the Truth and Reconciliation proceedings and consists mostly of the collected stories of individual trauma inflicted by the apartheid regime, which are overlaid with her own responses to these graphic details. A Change of Tongue (2003) is more autobiographical and personal than the earlier work, more searching in its negotiation of the complexities and …
Taal moet weerstand bied”: N Verkenning van Niggie
A literary analysis is done of Ingrid Winterbach’s novel Niggie [“Cousin”], with specific focus on the nature and function of Anglo-Boer War material in Winterbach’s text. This novel has a profound effect on the reader a century after the war, because it addresses postcolonial issues and predicaments such as a defragmenting identity, as well as the possible demise of the Afrikaans language and culture, faced by the descendants of those involved i…
Plagiaat? Appropriasie? Kulturele oorplanting? Huldiging: Brandende kwessies rondom mondelinge tradisies – Eugène Marais en die San opnuut bekyk
South African literature has a long history of cultural translation or transplantation from the San or Bushman2 oral tradition. This phenomenon of the appropriation of the voice of the extinct San can be traced though all genres, but is especially prevalent in children's books, poetry, and fiction. Through a historical overview of degrees of cultural translation (in all its literary variations) clarification is sought for issues involved in Steph…
Examining the Servant's Subversive Verbal and Non-Verbal Expression in Marlene van Niekerk's Agaat
The power struggle between Milla and Agaat in Marlene van Niekerk's Agaat (2006) is one based in language. While the matriarch's perspective dominates the novel, thereby presumably silencing Agaat, the servant-cum-nurse employs alternative methods of communication, or mimetic gestures, to undermine Milla's point of view. Through verbal and non-verbal measures, Agaat attempts to counteract the dying woman's story. While these communicative measure…
Antjie Krog: Towards a syncretic identity
Krog's striving towards a new syncretic South African identity develops in her later oeuvre on two fronts: thematically in terms of content, and with relation to form, in terms of the increasing use of an African‐based orally orientated poetics. At the basis of her poetics lies the aim to “revolutionise” the language through transgressing taboos, while her “translation as transformation” project is at the basis of a search for a common humanity. …
Labyrinth of loneliness”: Breyten Breytenbach’s prison poetry (1976–1985)
Breytenbach’s prison poetry is first contextualized as part of a South African subgenre that flourished under apartheid, and then interrogated for its specificities: the singular prison conditions under which he wrote, the nature of the poetry, specific leitmotifs in each of the five volumes published between 1976 and 1985. A psychoanalytic approach is indicated to this strong middle phase in his extensive poetical oeuvre, comprising seventeen co…
Thomas Pringle (1789-1834) en die Boesmans
Pringle's Bushmen poems, his short story about Pangola and his autobiography, Narrative of Residence in South Africa (1835) offer particularly interesting, often conflicting, perspectives on the situation of the Eastern Cape Bushmen in the early nineteenth century. As a gentleman settler farmer, minor Romantic poet and a pro-abolition journalist his views of the Bushmen changed as easily as so many different cloaks around the shoulder. Born in th…
Jy is die vertolker’: Die lewensloop van Adam Small
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
Die enigmatiese aard van die trieksterfiguur in Ingrid Winterbach se Niggie
This article explores the enigmatic nature of tricksters in Ingrid Winterbach’s Niggie (Cousin, 2002), as manifested in everyday life through the supernatural and the unconscious (for instance in dreams). In this way some of the puzzling aspects of this magisterial novel are clarified. Early in Niggie the reader is confronted with a trickster figure in the form of a dream figure, the red haired woman with the little feather hat, who appears in th…
No Cold Kitchen. A Biography of Nadine Gordimer (Ronald Suresh Roberts)
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
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