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Lessons in writing the biography of the crossover poet, Olga Kirsch

Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2017
Olga Kirsch was an English-speaking Jewess who wrote and published poetry in Afrikaans. As such she exemplifies a crossover poet who introduces the voice of the other into a national canon in her case, the only Jewish voice in Afrikaans poetry.
Egonne Roth
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Afrika en Afrikaans: Die beskouings van Herman Charles Bosman en Van Wyk Louw

Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2018
In a number of reviews and articles published in the 1940's Herman Charles Bosman expressed his appreciation for the Afrikaans language and for Afrikaans literature. He fiercely attacked what he described as a tendency in Afrikaans literature, especially
Willie Burger
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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

Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2012
In the institutional context of literature in Flanders Herman de Coninck (1944–97) was an important player (or “actor”). The author is well known as a poet, a literary critic and editor of the Dutch Granta-like magazine Nieuw Wereldtijdschrift (NWT ...
Yves T’Sjoen
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Sinaps-opsporing tussen self en ander in Antjie Krog se Mede-wete (2014)

Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2019
The poetry volume Mede-wete by Antjie Krog is a sustained questioning of ethical relations between self and other, an on-going preoccupation of Krog in both her poetry and literary non-fiction works.
Andries Visagie
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Die afbakening van die kern van die Afrikaanse poësiesisteem (2000–2022)

Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
A core/periphery structure is a concept often used in various disciplines to examine the structure of different systems. In the study of Afrikaans literature, this structural facet is also a well-known topic and one that has already been written about ...
Burgert Senekal
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Writing Poetry in Yiddish During the Destruction of Gaza? Linguistic Citizenship in a Time of Moral Crisis

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 341-347, June 2026.
ABSTRACT In this commentary, we foreground the dilemmas that arise when ethics and politics clash. Taking the Yiddish‐language poem Khurbn Aze [lit. The Destruction of Gaza] as our entry point, we argue that Stroud's sociolinguistic notion of linguistic citizenship together with Levinas's moral philosophy can offer a productive theoretical lens for ...
Hannah Lukow, Tommaso M. Milani
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Crafting Spaces: Deleuzian Perspectives on Women's Identity Work in Male‐Dominated Jobs

Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 715-730, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper proposes Deleuzian concepts of becoming minor, lines of flight, and deterritorialization and reterritorialization as a way of understanding identity work based on the experiences of women in male‐dominated jobs. We suggest that Deleuze's frame emphasizes fluidity and rejects category‐limited choices, and it opens up the possibility ...
Obaa Akua Konadu‐Osei, Smaranda Boroş, Anita Bosch   +2 more
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Van weerloos tot weerbaar: Die Afrikaanse vrouedigter binne patriargale konteks

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2014
Vulnerability to resilience: The Afrikaans woman poet in patriarchal context. On Elisabeth Eybers’s poetry and my own. This article gives an account of the nature and content of my religious poems that form a large part of my poetry. Looking back upon my
Lina Spies
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“Die hart ’n droë blaar”: Verlies, rou en melancholie in Olga Kirsch se Afrikaanse poësie / “The heart a dry leaf”: Loss, Mourning and Melancholia in Olga Kirsch’s Afrikaans Poetry [PDF]

Werkwinkel, 2014
Abstract Reading Olga Kirsch’s Afrikaans poetry, one is struck by the important role that the experience of loss occupies in her oeuvre. It is evident in the first two volumes of poetry she published while still living in South Africa, as well as in the five volumes she published after emigrating to Israel in 1948. Because her poetry,
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MIGRATION, MOBILITY, AND BEING IN TRANSLATION

History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 396-404, September 2025.
ABSTRACT Drawing on an expanded concept of translation as process and practice, this contribution to the “Translation, Migration, Narrative” forum explores how migrants, as described by scholars such as Paul F. Bandia, embody “translated beings” who are marked both by agency and by constraint.
Peter Schneck, Julie M. Weise
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