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Nederlandse Letterkunde - Volume 24, Issue 2, 2019
Volume 24, Issue 2, 2019
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oa ‘Hij zou onder diens ogen een vent zijn’
More LessAbstract ‘He would be a man in his eyes. ’ Male homosocial desire in novels by Menno Ter Braak Menno ter Braak is one of the most prominent writers of Dutch high modernism. In his two novels, Hampton Court and Dr. Dumay verliest…, the double bind of homosocial desire is fully operative. Building on the critical work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, this paper questions the role of the ‘epistemology of the closet’ in Ter Read More
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oa De mannenfantasieën van Lucebert
By Sander BaxAbstract Lucebert’s male fantasies. Bertus Swaanswijk/Lucebert’s early poetry read in the light of biographical information on Swaanswijk's war years In his biography of Dutch poet Lucebert, biographer Wim Hazeu published fragments of letters in which young Bertus Swaanswijk, who worked in a German factory during World War 2, spoke positive about nazi-Germany and used antisemitic discourse. In this article, the e Read More
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oa ‘Opdat ik heenga als een man’
More LessAbstract ‘That I may perish like a man’. War and masculinity This essay focuses on the cultural representation of masculinity in times of war. It unravels the gender effects of the topic ‘call to arms’ in which men are addressed as soldiers while women are often relegated to invisibility or to a helping role. Thus, the onset of war creates gender. The topic reconstitution of men and women in times of war is first analysed in a sele Read More
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oa De nieuwe lichting
By Sven VitseAbstract ‘The new batch’. Anja Meulenbelt and men's liberation in the Netherlands Dutch writer and activist Anja Meulenbelt was a key figure in second wave feminism in the Netherlands. Her autofictional novel De schaamte voorbij is considered a milestone in feminist literature in Dutch. Besides her literary work, she had published widely on gender and literary criticism from the 1970s onwards and continues to do so toda Read More
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oa ‘Leve de vrouw in al haar vrijheid. Rochelen is onfatsoenlijk’1
More LessAbstract ‘Long live woman and her freedom. It is indecent to gurgle.’ Muslims, masculinity and irony in Hafid Bouazza's work This article sets out to scrutinize the world of difference that lies between Hafid Bouazza’s story-collection De voeten van Abdullah from 1996, and his collection of essays De akker en de mantel from 2015. It does so by means of a critical re-reading of Bouazza’s celebrated 1996 debut, a work that at that ti Read More
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oa Een man in het nauw maakt rare sprongen
By Emma GossesAbstract Desperate men leed to desperate deeds. Masculinity in Arthur van Amerongen's posture To study the dynamics in the alleged ‘crisis of masculinity’ through a case-study, this contribution makes a posture analysis of columnist Arthur van Amerongen. By exploring his posture and the field that speaks from it, it becomes clear how mechanisms such as sexual nationalism, masculinnocence, and recurring anti-feminism t Read More
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