This eighteenth volume of The Low Countries focuses on cultural, artistic and societal developments in Flanders and the Netherlands, with particular attention to the theme “South Africa Revisited”. The volume brings together essays by various contributors exploring historical ties, cultural exchanges and contemporary perspectives linking the Low Countries and South Africa. It combines literary, historical and socio-cultural analyses within the broader framework of the annual publication dedicated to arts and society in the Dutch-speaking region. South Africa Revisited Luc Devoldere | Chief Editor; Whatever survives of the innermost me All Poems by Elisabeth Eybers; Lost and Found in Vollezele [Phillippa Yaa de Villiers]; Twelve Languages, Thirteen Perspectives [Tom Lanoye]; The Making of a Translator [Daniel Hugo]; After the Cages, the Jungle [Adriaan van Dis]; A Tender, Bitter Mother's Breast [Riana Scheepers]; Shadows on the Wall Snapshots from a Beloved Country [Alfred Schaffer]; Bitterkomix Outrage Art from Two Laaities [Fred de Vries]; Football Another Nation-Building Moment [Simon Kuper]; ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ Marlene Dumas and South Africa [Rudy Hodel]; Common Cultural Heritage Work in Progress South Africa - the Netherlands [Robert Parthesius and Anouk Fienieg]; The Post-Colonial Scope for Afrikaans [Antjie Krog]; The Dutch Image of South Africa Twenty Years after 1990 [Gerrit Schutte]; In this strange land, unshielded by a mask... All Poems by Elisabeth Eybers; The Low Countries and Islam Historical Relations and Present Debates [Karel Steenbrink]; The Batavian Athens or The Rapenburg and its Surroundings [Anton Korteweg]; A Year of Mounting Pressure Belgian State Reform in 2009 [Carl Devos and Nicolas Bouteca]; A Medieval Encyclopedist The Life and Work of Jacob van Maerlant [Ingrid Biesheuvel]; Henk Visch's Sculptures Don't Lie [Ingeborg Walinga]; A Longing for Reconciliation The Significance of Erwin Mortier's Prose [Cyrille Offermans]; No Stage Fright International Success for Directors from the Low Countries [Jos Nijhof]; Rogier van der Weyden The Master of Passions [Till-Holger Borchert]; Staying up for Days in the Chelsea Hotel The Jan Cremer Phenomenon [Philip Hoorne]; Hortus Conclusus The Art Landscapes of Ian Hamilton Finlay and R.W. van de Wint [Jacqueline van koningsbruggen]; Words Are Just as Powerful as Imagination The Magic World of Tonke Dragt [Joke Linders]; An Architect with a Social Agenda Liesbeth van der Pol [Marieke van Rooy]; Raging Against Deficiency Anneke Brassinga [Piet Gerbrandy]; Travelling to Limbo The Universe of Jennifer Tee [David Stroband]; Starry-Eyed Merlijn Twaalfhoven: A Singular Voice [Emile Wennekes]; Play of Light and Time David Claerbout's Imagery [Lieven van den Abeele];Changing Times Dutch Studies in the Twenty-First Century [Jane Fenoulhet]; Building Books The Powerful Book Designs of Irma Boom [Petri Leijdekkers]; Théo Van Rysselberghe and the Architecture of Decoration [Jane Block]; Dutch Architecture as an Export Product; A Neighbourhood Rises from the Ashes: Roombeek; New Dance Steps at the Royal Ballet of Flanders; Four Centuries of Dutch-American Relations; 50 Years of Congolese-Belgian Relations; ‘Strange Men on the Land’ More Than Fifty Years of Natural Gas in the Netherlands; Janke is not a Yankee How Dutch is American English?; Not Just for Bookworms A Literary History of the Low Countries; Milestone, A Monument The Complete Illustrated and Annotated Edition of Vincent van Gogh's Letters; Between Django and Dire Straits Absynthe Minded; The Last Refuge of the Emigré with Nowhere te Flee’ Gert Vlok Nel; Ecologist Marten Scheffer Recognises no Boundaries; Luc Huyse: from Academic to Public Intellectual Religion; A Human Theology Edward Schillebeeckx (1914-2009); The First President of Europe Herman Van Rompuy; Deepening the Western Scheldt Tensions between Flanders and the Netherlands; Taut but Dynamic Theo Van Doesburg at Tate Modern; James Ensor A New Catalogue of the Paintings; Russia on the Amstel Hermitage Amsterdam; ‘Van Eyck to Dürer’ A Matter of Influence

The low Countries. Arts and society in Flanders and the Netherlands: South Africa Revisited