'n Vergelykende ondersoek na die toekenning van debuutpryse vir Afrikaanse en Nederlandstalige poësie, 1990 - 2009

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis a comparative perspective is provided on the position of debut prizes for poetry in theAfrikaans and Dutch/Flemish literary fields between 1990 and 2009. Academic researchers tend toavoid the subject of literary prizes as well as the wider research terrain of literary evaluation. This issurprising, since literary evaluation is often a crucial activity within the study of literature and literaryprizes are becoming more and more important in the literary field. Thus, the literary award ascanonization mechanism is explored with particular focus on the debut prize for poetry that functions asan indicator of the canonization potential of new voices within a literary field. After a theoreticaloverview is provided of the selected debut prizes (and of a few other important prizes within theparticular field), two chapters are presented about the selected Afrikaans and Dutch case studies. Atthe end of each of these chapters certain tendencies or patterns with regard to debut awards for poetrybetween 1990 and 2009 in Afrikaans and Dutch/Flemish are identified. In conclusion these tendenciesin the different literary fields are compared.The methodological approach of this study is qualitative. Four debuts in Afrikaans and three debuts inDutch are selected as case studies. These debuts were all awarded with more than one debut prize.The Afrikaans cases are: H.J. Pieterse for Alruin (1989), Ilse van Staden for Watervlerk (2003), DanieMarais for In die buitenste ruimte (2006) and Loftus Marais for Staan in die algemeen nader aanvensters (2008). Erik Menkveld for De karpersimulator (1997), Hagar Peeters for Koffers zeelucht(2003) and Ester Naomi Perquin for Servetten halfstok (2007) are the Dutch cases. The Afrikaansdebut prizes identified are the Eugène Marais Prize, the Ingrid Jonker Prize, and the UJ Debut Prize;and in Dutch/Flemish the C. Buddingh'-prijs voor nieuwe Nederlandse poëzie; the Debuutprijs HetLiegend Konijn; the Vlaamse Debuutprijs/Herman de Coninck Debuutprijs; the J.C. Bloem-poëzieprijs;the Jo Peters Poëzieprijs; and the Lucy B. en C.W. van der Hoogt-prijs. In the two chapters about theselected cases, reception studies of reviews as well as jury reports (of the particular debuts) areprovided. Here the research of Olf Praamstra (1984) and J.A.A. Mooij (1973, 1979) on the argumentsand criteria used in reviews is applied. The research of Katinka Dijkstra (1989) and Susanne Janssen(1994) on canonization is also used. Short descriptions of the profiles and public claims made by theselauded poets are discussed with regard to the field theory of Pierre Bourdieu (1993, 1994); as well asthe work of Jérôme Meizoz (2010) about posturing and the research of Kees van Rees and GillisDorleijn (2005, 2006) on the role of poetics. The work of these researchers builds on Bourdieu's fieldtheory. In addition to this institutional approach, a textual analysis of selected poems from theprizewinning works is also provided. Some of the identified patterns and tendencies are mentioned inthese analyses.

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