the death of the author in dutch history
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- In: Faces of death: visualising history / edited by Andrea Petö and Klaartje Schrijvers
- Magazine Year
- 2009
- Creator
- Waaldijk, Berteke
- Creator
- Petö, Andrea
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, leeftijdsgroepen, kolonialisme, jodendom, geweld, tweede wereldoorlog, geschiedenis, Nederlands-Indië, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- In this chapter Berteke Waaldijk discusses the portraits of two young women authors, Anne Frank (1929-1944) and Raden Ajeng Kartini (1879-1904). The two portraits have been reproduced in books that published posthumous texts, respectively a diary and personal letters, written by these two women. Both women have acquired canonised status in the representations of two major events of a century, the 20th, that left its mark on the history of the Netherlands: the history of imperialism and the history of the Holocaust. The author argues that reprinting the photographs of these two women contributed to a view of their work in which there was hardly any attention to their literary and political ambitions or the complexities of their writing.