Louise Viljoen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3923007 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Louise Viljoen |
| PRENOMES | Louise |
| SOBRENOME | Viljoen |
| ASSINATURA | VILJOEN L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Stellenbosch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1748-9098 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
N Interseksionele lesing van Lynthia Julius se Kinderlê
This article consists of an intersectional reading of Lynthia Julius’s second volume of poetry Kinderlê, published in 2024. I begin by interpreting the introductory poem in the volume, “1 Gepubliseerdiërs 13”, in which the speaker protests being consistently referred to as a “bruin digter” (a ‘brown’ or ‘coloured’ poet). I read this protest as an invitation to approach the volume through an intersectional (or matrix) rather than an essentialising…
Ons het ver […] versit
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
Alfred Schaffer, Shaka en die transnasionalisme
In this article, I read the Dutch poet Alfred Schaffer’s volume of poetry Mens dier ding (Man animal thing) against the background of transnationalism. I employ transnationalism as critical or hermeneutic perspective and focus on the identity of the author, the themes worked out in the volume and the use of anachronism and metapoetical references as literary strategies in support of the transnational nature of the text. Reference is made to the w…
Dystopian Ecologies
This article explores the notion of a South African ecocriticism by firstly placing it against the background of the ongoing debates about the relationship between postcolonialism and ecocriticism and secondly by situating it within the context of African ecocriticism. It points out the most important characteristics of South African ecocriticism, focusing on the impact of South Africa’s colonial history on environmental matters, the subsequent e…
Privacy, Authorship, and Ownership
This article explores the issues raised by the publication of Flame in the Snow, the private correspondence of the South African writers André Brink and Ingrid Jonker. Events around the entry of the letters into the public domain are discussed with reference to the ethical questions they raises as well as the narrative constituted by bringing together the letters into a collection. The letters are finally read alongside the novel Orgie that Brink…
Bientang (Jolyn Phillips)
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
Obituary
Ekphrasis and/As Translation in Marlene van Niekerk’s Volumes of Poetry Gesant van die mispels and in die stille agterkamer
This article discusses two volumes of ekphrastic poems by the South African author Marlene van Niekerk. The volumes are based on paintings by two relatively minor Dutch painters. The first, Gesant van die mispels [‘Emissary of the medlars’], centres on paintings by Adriaen Coorte who presumably lived from 1659 to 1708, whereas the second In die stille agterkamer [‘In the quiet backroom’] relates to paintings by Jan Mankes who was born in 1889 and…
Afrikaans Literature in / and the World Republic of Letters
This article deals with the position of Afrikaans literature as a small literature in the world, with specific reference to some of Pascale Casanova’s most provocative statements on the position of small literatures in her book La République Mondiale des Lettres (1999), translated into English as The World Republic of Letters (2004). The article first looks at the different meanings of the term “world literature” and the notion of a “world republ…
Asof geen berge ooit hier gewoon het nie (Pieter Odendaal)
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.
Krap uit die see (Fourie Botha)
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.
“Straddling Languages”
This article proceeds from the vantage point that the “transnational” and the “translational” are important concepts when discussing the processes of cultural literary signification taking place under the various conditions of displacement and migration the world has witnessed throughout the course of history. The article explores the notion of “translational literature” (as defined by Waïl Hassan) as a means to mediate between different language…
Die leser in Breyten Breytenbach se tronkpoësie
Breyten Breytenbach is the most important prison writer in the Afrikaans literary tradition. This article briefly places his prison writing against the background of national and international prison writing before going on to investigate the way in which the reader is represented in his Afrikaans prison poetry. Research about prison writing points out the importance of communication with the outside world for the prisoner. To the prisoner who is…
Dubbelfoto (Cas Wepener)
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 eerste siklus (Etienne Leroux)
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
Toevallige tekens (Martjie Bosman)
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
N Vlag aan die tong. Gedenkbundel van die derde Swart Afrikaanse Skrywerssimposium
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
Huldeblyk Johan Smuts (1934–2015)
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 Cambridge History of South African Literature
South Africa's unique history has produced literatures in many languages, in both oral and written forms, reflecting the diversity in the cultural histories and experiences of its people. The Cambridge History offers a comprehensive, multi-authored history of South African literature in all eleven official languages (and more minor ones) of the country, produced by a team of over forty international experts, including contributors from all of the…
Of Chisels and Jackhammers
The article offers a critical survey of Afrikaans poetry of the years 2000 to 2009. It is written against the climate of concern that Afrikaans, no longer one of two official languages but one of eleven, will be increasingly marginalised, particularly as English is the effective lingua franca of contemporary South Africa. The considerable output of poetry, however, suggests that the Afrikaans language is adapting creatively to new circumstances a…
Nationalism, gender and sexuality in the autobiographical writing of two Afrikaner women
This article makes the point that autobiography, a genre often considered marginal to the literary canon, can be regarded as a site for examining the impact of nationalism on the construction of gendered and sexual identity. It investigates questions of nationalism, gender and sexuality in the autobiographical texts of Petronella van Heerden and Elsa Joubert. Petronella van Heerden (1887–1975) became the first Afrikaner woman to qualify as a medi…
The mother as pre‐text
Antjie Krog's autobiographical text, A Change of Tongue (2003), consists of six separate but also related narratives which give different aspects of the author's experience of transformation after South Africa's change to democratic rule in 1994. This article deals with the first narrative titled “A Town”, in which the processes of post‐apartheid change in the Free State town, Kroonstad, where Krog grew up, are interspersed with a narrative about…
Antjie Krog en haar literêre moeders
This article looks at the way in which the Afrikaans poet Antjie Krog positions herself with regard to her female precursors or literary mothers in Afrikaans literature. A short survey is done of the different descriptions of the way in which literary tradition functions: the male-centred descriptions of T. S. Eliot and Harold Bloom are mentioned as well as descriptions of the way in which a female literary tradition functions in the work of Virg…
Translation and transformation
This article discusses Antjie Krog's translation of verse written in the indigenous South African languages in the anthology Met woorde soos met kerse [“With words as with candles”] into Afrikaans. It looks at Krog's work as a translator as well as her ideas about translation as a means of empowering the speakers and writers of languages smaller and institutionally less powerful than English and Afrikaans in South Africa. The translations in Met …
Displacement in the literary texts of black Afrikaans writers in South Africa∗
This article focuses on the representation of physical displacements in literary texts by black Afrikaans writers. These representations can be seen against the background of a complex history of colonisation and decolonisation in South Africa. On the one hand the relatively young Afrikaans literature tells of the way in which a sense of place was established by European settlers and their descendants by representing the transformation of space i…
Obituary
Ekphrasis and/As Translation in Marlene van Niekerk’s Volumes of Poetry Gesant van die mispels and in die stille agterkamer
This article discusses two volumes of ekphrastic poems by the South African author Marlene van Niekerk. The volumes are based on paintings by two relatively minor Dutch painters. The first, Gesant van die mispels [‘Emissary of the medlars’], centres on paintings by Adriaen Coorte who presumably lived from 1659 to 1708, whereas the second In die stille agterkamer [‘In the quiet backroom’] relates to paintings by Jan Mankes who was born in 1889 and…
Antjie Krog en haar literêre moeders
This article looks at the way in which the Afrikaans poet Antjie Krog positions herself with regard to her female precursors or literary mothers in Afrikaans literature. A short survey is done of the different descriptions of the way in which literary tradition functions: the male-centred descriptions of T. S. Eliot and Harold Bloom are mentioned as well as descriptions of the way in which a female literary tradition functions in the work of Virg…
Translation and transformation
This article discusses Antjie Krog's translation of verse written in the indigenous South African languages in the anthology Met woorde soos met kerse [“With words as with candles”] into Afrikaans. It looks at Krog's work as a translator as well as her ideas about translation as a means of empowering the speakers and writers of languages smaller and institutionally less powerful than English and Afrikaans in South Africa. The translations in Met …
Die roman as polifonie
This article argues that Mikhael Bakhtin's dialogism provides an appropriate theoretical background against which Lettie Viljoen's Belemmering (1990), a novel in which the polyphony of voices is immediately apparent, can be read. Bakthin's dialogism presupposes the heteroglossia of reality according to which the world is seen as a teeming mass of discourses from which the speaking subject must choose. As the binary opposite of dialogism, monologi…
Re‐presenting history
Reading and writing Breytenbach's return to paradise from within and without
Introduction
“'N Brief in ‘N Bottel”
This article discusses the way in which Karel Schoeman's autobiography, Die laaste Afrikaanse boek (2002), constitutes a combination of the different genres he has used in his writing career and argues that his text is a demonstration of the statement that autobiography is a hybrid genre that preys on other genres. This reading of the autobiography focuses on the way in which Schoeman's autobiography represents a specific reaction to South Africa…
Displacement in the literary texts of black Afrikaans writers in South Africa∗
This article focuses on the representation of physical displacements in literary texts by black Afrikaans writers. These representations can be seen against the background of a complex history of colonisation and decolonisation in South Africa. On the one hand the relatively young Afrikaans literature tells of the way in which a sense of place was established by European settlers and their descendants by representing the transformation of space i…
Translation and transformation
This article discusses Antjie Krog's translation of verse written in the indigenous South African languages in the anthology Met woorde soos met kerse [“With words as with candles”] into Afrikaans. It looks at Krog's work as a translator as well as her ideas about translation as a means of empowering the speakers and writers of languages smaller and institutionally less powerful than English and Afrikaans in South Africa. The translations in Met …
The mother as pre‐text
Antjie Krog's autobiographical text, A Change of Tongue (2003), consists of six separate but also related narratives which give different aspects of the author's experience of transformation after South Africa's change to democratic rule in 1994. This article deals with the first narrative titled “A Town”, in which the processes of post‐apartheid change in the Free State town, Kroonstad, where Krog grew up, are interspersed with a narrative about…
Antjie Krog en haar literêre moeders
This article looks at the way in which the Afrikaans poet Antjie Krog positions herself with regard to her female precursors or literary mothers in Afrikaans literature. A short survey is done of the different descriptions of the way in which literary tradition functions: the male-centred descriptions of T. S. Eliot and Harold Bloom are mentioned as well as descriptions of the way in which a female literary tradition functions in the work of Virg…
Nationalism, gender and sexuality in the autobiographical writing of two Afrikaner women
This article makes the point that autobiography, a genre often considered marginal to the literary canon, can be regarded as a site for examining the impact of nationalism on the construction of gendered and sexual identity. It investigates questions of nationalism, gender and sexuality in the autobiographical texts of Petronella van Heerden and Elsa Joubert. Petronella van Heerden (1887–1975) became the first Afrikaner woman to qualify as a medi…
Of Chisels and Jackhammers
The article offers a critical survey of Afrikaans poetry of the years 2000 to 2009. It is written against the climate of concern that Afrikaans, no longer one of two official languages but one of eleven, will be increasingly marginalised, particularly as English is the effective lingua franca of contemporary South Africa. The considerable output of poetry, however, suggests that the Afrikaans language is adapting creatively to new circumstances a…
The Cambridge History of South African Literature
South Africa's unique history has produced literatures in many languages, in both oral and written forms, reflecting the diversity in the cultural histories and experiences of its people. The Cambridge History offers a comprehensive, multi-authored history of South African literature in all eleven official languages (and more minor ones) of the country, produced by a team of over forty international experts, including contributors from all of the…
Huldeblyk Johan Smuts (1934–2015)
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
N Vlag aan die tong. Gedenkbundel van die derde Swart Afrikaanse Skrywerssimposium
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
“Straddling Languages”
This article proceeds from the vantage point that the “transnational” and the “translational” are important concepts when discussing the processes of cultural literary signification taking place under the various conditions of displacement and migration the world has witnessed throughout the course of history. The article explores the notion of “translational literature” (as defined by Waïl Hassan) as a means to mediate between different language…
Die leser in Breyten Breytenbach se tronkpoësie
Breyten Breytenbach is the most important prison writer in the Afrikaans literary tradition. This article briefly places his prison writing against the background of national and international prison writing before going on to investigate the way in which the reader is represented in his Afrikaans prison poetry. Research about prison writing points out the importance of communication with the outside world for the prisoner. To the prisoner who is…
Dubbelfoto (Cas Wepener)
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 eerste siklus (Etienne Leroux)
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
Toevallige tekens (Martjie Bosman)
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
Krap uit die see (Fourie Botha)
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.
Afrikaans Literature in / and the World Republic of Letters
This article deals with the position of Afrikaans literature as a small literature in the world, with specific reference to some of Pascale Casanova’s most provocative statements on the position of small literatures in her book La République Mondiale des Lettres (1999), translated into English as The World Republic of Letters (2004). The article first looks at the different meanings of the term “world literature” and the notion of a “world republ…
Asof geen berge ooit hier gewoon het nie (Pieter Odendaal)
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.
Privacy, Authorship, and Ownership
This article explores the issues raised by the publication of Flame in the Snow, the private correspondence of the South African writers André Brink and Ingrid Jonker. Events around the entry of the letters into the public domain are discussed with reference to the ethical questions they raises as well as the narrative constituted by bringing together the letters into a collection. The letters are finally read alongside the novel Orgie that Brink…
Bientang (Jolyn Phillips)
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
Obituary
History (26 obras) · Art (20 obras) · Literature (17 obras) · South African History and Culture (17 obras) · Philosophy (15 obras) · Sociology (15 obras) · History (12 obras) · Political science (10 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Linguistics (8 obras)