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Siegfried Huigen

Author of Publications on Dutch South African Literature
Professor of Dutch Literature at Stellenbosch University

Siegfried Huigen obtained a Dr. Lit from Utrecht University in Holland. He is Chief Editor of Tydskrif vir Nederlands en Afrikaans (TNA), the representative of the Dutch Literary Association of South Africa and the main organiser of the Workshop for Nederlandistik.

Publications:

De weg naar Monomotapa. Nederlandstalige representaties van geografische, historische en sociale werkelijkheden in Zuid-Afrika. Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 1996.
(Since 2006 available on the internet at Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse letteren (DBNL): http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/huig002wegn01_01/). 2. Siegfried Huigen & Jean Kommers (eds), Interpretations of colonial representations. Saarbrücken, Verlag für Entwicklungspolitik, 2004
http://www.verlag-entwicklungspolitik.de/nicc-02.htm 3. Verkenningen van Zuid-Afrika. Achttiende-eeuwse reizigers aan de Kaap. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2007
(Reviews in Dutch newspapers NRC-Handelsblad and Algemeen Dagblad and Reformatorisch Dagblad, weekly HP/De Tijd, scholarly journals Mededelingen van de Jacob Campo Weyermanstichting and Werkwinkel, and an article in Opinio.) http://www.nnbh.com/nurpage.cgi?nur=691&sort=alfa&find=9057304643

Books in preparation
Van Volksmoeder tot Fokofpolisiekar. Kritiese opstelle oor Afrikaanse herinneringsplekke (Albert Grundling and Siegfried Huigen eds.) )
Stellenbosch: Sun African Media (scheduled for August 2008; estimated length: 20 essays).
Themanummer Zuid-Afrika. De Gids (Siegfried Huigen & Esther Wils eds.), November 2008.
Knowledge and Colonialism - English edition of Verkenningen van Zuid-Afrika. Achttiende-eeuwse reizigers aan de Kaap. Atlantic World Series, Leiden/Boston: Brill Academic Publishers (scheduled for 2009).
The Dutch Trading Companies as Knowledge Networks (Siegfried Huigen, Jan de Jongh & Elmer Kolfin eds.)
Intersections 13. Leiden/Boston: Brill Academic Publishers (scheduled for 2009; estimated lenghth: 40 essays).
Monograph on Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien by François Valentyn (scheduled for 2011).

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