Oratie. Kunst en vliegwerk. Coalities in de Cultuurwetenschappen1
Auteurs
Rosemarie Buikema
Samenvatting
Buikema proposes new coalitions between
various traditions of textual analysis in order
to delve deeper into the connections between
art, culture and diversity. In this context, diversity
not so much refers to a politically correct
concept that pays lip service to the experiences
of women, migrants, blacks and other
politically, socially and culturally marginalised
people, but rather to the consequence of
the fundamental singularity of visual and
discursive works of art. Buikema underlines
the political and aesthetic merits of in-depth
intertextual analysis by way of a thorough discussion
of two great literary works, published
in a period of political transition in South
Africa: Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee and Agaat by
Marlene Van Niekerk.