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  • Europe du Nord

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    DESHIMA, hors-série n° 1

     

    Après trois ans d'existence, la revue française des mondes néerlandophones Deshima s'élargit au reste des pays du Nord. Cela devrait se traduire par un rythme de parution plus soutenu : deux numéros par an au lieu d'un, l'un étant plutôt consacré à la Scandinavie, l'autre aux terres d'expression néerlandaise.

     

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    Les responsables éditoriaux s'expliquent : « Deshima entre dans sa quatrième année, et comme chaque être vivant, elle se renouvelle de temps en temps. Ce nouveau numéro de Deshima comporte deux innovations majeures. Il s’agit d’une part du premier volume hors-série publié dans la revue. D’autre part, et c’est sans doute plus inattendu, Deshima se dote d’un nouveau sous-titre: « Revue d’histoire globale des Pays du Nord ». Cette évolution nous a paru logique. En effet, dans les trois numéros précédents, Deshima ne s’occupait pas uniquement des Pays-Bas et de la Belgique, mais donnait également une large place aux contacts culturels avec d’autres pays. Dès sa création, Deshima a présenté l’histoire dans une perspective qu’on appelle aujourd’hui en anglais « global history » et que nous voudrions rendre ici en français par l’expression « histoire globale ». Le choix de l’élargissement aux pays du Nord a également ses raisons. Les départements d’études néerlandaises et scandinaves de l’Université de Strasbourg collaborent régulièrement depuis plusieurs années. À travers le dernier numéro de Deshima et les séminaires intitulés « Chemins du Nord » organisés par les deux départements, nous avons découvert au fil de ces rencontres une histoire intimement imbriquée entre les pays néerlandophones et ceux de la Scandinavie. À titre d’exemple, dès le XVIIe siècle, des Suédois (C.-P. Thunberg) et même des Allemands (Philipp Franz von Siebold) étaient engagés par la Compagnie néerlandaise des Indes Orientales pour sillonner les mers du globe et partir à la découverte de terres encore inexplorées par les Européens. Ce mélange de nationalités était monnaie courante sur l’île de Deshima dans la baie de Nagasaki, alors que les Japonais ne pensaient avoir à faire qu’à des Néerlandais. Notre collaboration nous a finalement paru tellement fructueuse, que nous avons décidé de l’institutionnaliser en ouvrant Deshima aux autres pays du Nord pour que nos lecteurs puissent en profiter également. Bien entendu, la littérature occupera toujours une place de choix dans les prochains numéros. Pour mener à bien cette nouvelle orientation, Thomas Mohnike entre dans la direction de la revue en tant que spécialiste des pays scandinaves. Thomas Beaufils, quant à lui, travaille désormais à l'Université de Lille 3, mais reste bien entendu fidèle à son propre enfant. Sylvain Briens, nommé à l’Université Paris IV, contribuera également régulièrement à la rédaction de numéros. »

     

    Sommaire du numéro hors-série 1 - 2009

    Capitales culturelles et Europe du Nord /

    Kulturhauptstädte Nordeuropas

     

    Thomas Beaufils & Thomas Mohnike, « Deshima grandit ! », p. 5

    Sylvain Briens, « Capitales culturelles. Quelques éléments de définition », p. 7

    Arne Melberg, « Wo ist der Süden? Wo ist der Osten?  Literarische Varianten europäischer Grenzen », p. 17

    Sylvain Briens, « Paris, capitale culturelle scandinave du XIXe siècle ? Pèlerinages symboliques et transferts culturels », p. 33

    Javier Maestro, « Helsingfors (Helsinki), capitale culturelle à la fin du XIXe siècle », p. 51

    Lidia Gluchowska, « Totenmesse, Lebensfries und Die Hölle. Przybyszewski, Munch, Vigeland und die proto- expressionistische Kunsttheorie », p. 79

    Annie Bourguignon, « Art et mégalopole. Vilhelm Ekelund et Berlin », p 117

    Hubert F. van den Berg, « Der Sturm als Kunsthandlung und Nachrichtenbüro in der deutschen Propagandapolitik in den neutralen Nachbarländern während des Ersten Welt- kriegs », p. 135

    Klaus Müller-Wille, « CoBrA und Fin de Copenhague. Strategien kultureller Dekapitation im Umfeld Asger Jorns », p. 153

    Per Bäckström, « Stockholm – Hauptstadt der skandi- navischen Avantgarde der 1960er Jahre », p. 183

     

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    Résumés

     

    Sylvain Briens, Paris as Nordic Cultural Capital of the 19th century? Symbolic pilgrimages and cultural transfers

    At the end of the 19th century, a number of Nordic writers met in Paris, which represented a cultural capital for modernity in Europe. They wanted to escape from the intellectual environment of the Nordic capitals, which they considered as peripheries, in search for inspiration, stimulation and recognition. The aim of the article is to analyse in which way Paris became, in parallel with other cities such as Berlin, a place for aesthetic innovation and a centre for the Nordic writers in the construction of the modern project. It mainly focuses on the impact of Parisian intellectual environment on Nordic literary production at the end of the 19th century. By studying geographical, intellectual and social contexts of cultural fields, as well as by analyzing transfers and cultural mediations, it attempts to define the role of Paris as Nordic cultural capital of the 19th century.

     

    Arne Melberg, Wo ist der Süden? Wo ist der Osten? Literarische Varianten europäischer Grenzen

    Borders and limits are of obvious importance in Europe: this is demonstrated daily by masses of more or less illegal immigrants and by other forms of so-called trafficking. The article analyses literary versions of two specific frontiers in the works of a wide range of European authors: The South and the East, both showing quite different characteristics. The literary version of the border called South gives us something that is definite and dividing – although the components making up the borderline have shifted during the ages. The border called East, on the other hand, seems vague and extensive, more of a zone than a dividing line. In both cases, however, mythological interest is invested: the border – line or zone – is a place of drama and conflict, ultimately a drama of civilization. However, the literary investigations of the border are not concerned with law or traffic. The borders described are all located in the haven of imagination.

     

    Javier Maestro, Helsinki (Helsinfors) as Cultural Capital at the turn of the century?

    Helsinki, the capital of Finland, was called at the turn of the century by its Swedish name Helsingfors. At that time, it was the capital city of the Grand Duchy of Finland, a territory that was part of the Russian Empire. The article describes the cultural and political development of Helsingfors during the 19th Century. It evaluates the influence of Saint Petersburg and the heritage of the Swedish culture in the process that would lead Finland to autonomy. Through the creation of a number of modern newspapers published in Swedish or in Finnish and based in Helsingfors, the city contributed to the creation of a liberal public opinion in Finland. The article stresses finally the importance of the world exhibitions in Paris and London for the international recognition of a Finnish national cultural identity.

     

    Lidia Głuchowska, Requiem Mass, Frieze of Life and Hell. Przybyszewski, Munch, Vigeland and the proto-expressionistic art theory

    The article investigates in the beginnings of expressionistic art theory. It emphasises hereby the importance of the cross-aesthetic dialogue between the Norwegian artists Edvard Munch and Gustav Vigeland with the Polish-German author and critic Stanisław Przybyszewski. They made their acquaintance in the modernist milieu of end 19th century Berlin, but expanded their dialogue and activities to the major cities of Eastern, Central and Western Europe as Paris and Prague. Przybyszewski’s studies on Munch and Vigeland express an understanding of the artist and the viewer not merely as an aesthetic sensual subject, but as creators of their own right. These works did have an incontestable influence on the two artists and far beyond. However, those impacts remain to be studied in detail.

     

    Annie Bourguignon, Art and Megapolis. Vilhelm Ekelund and Berlin

    The article analyses the circumstances that led the Swedish poet and aphorist writer Vilhelm Ekelund to stay several years in Berlin at the beginning of the 20th century. Although Ekelund production is considered as one of the first examples of modernist poetry in Sweden, his attitude towards modernity has been globally negative. During his stay in Berlin, he suffered of the urban environment. In his essays and articles on the city, he condemned the way of life in the megapolis. His main interest in the German cultural life was the Neo-Hellenist tradition from Lessing to Nietzsche and the work of Goethe. The reading of Nietzsche was decisive for Ekelund and his inclination for Pre-Socratic philosophy. He claimed that the German culture represented classicism as opposed to modernity. He never became a poet of the megapolis. However, he did not reject totally the urban environment he experienced, and his stay in Berlin would have some influence on his later literary production.

     

    Hubert F. van den Berg, Der Sturm as art gallery and intelligence agency in German propaganda in the neutral neighbouring countries during the First World War

    In the centre of studies that analyze the processes of transnational cultural transfers, individual agents often figure as artists and patrons or institutions like theatres, museums, publishing companies or galleries. However, intelligence agencies may have developed an important influence as well. The article describes the secret activities of the well known expressionistic Berlin based gallery Der Sturm as one private branch of German propaganda politics during First World War. That private secret news agency, steered by Nell Walden-Rosland, used its image as apolitical art institution to promote covertly specific political contents in Scandinavian and Dutch press that would depict Germany as a cultural power.

     

    Klaus Müller-Wille, CoBrA and Fin de Copenhague – Strategies of cultural decapitation in the milieu of Asger Jorns

    The theme of cultural capitals and the intimately connected ideas of modernity and avant-gardes had been in the centre of critical assertions by the Danish artist Asger Jorn from his early beginnings. The article studies texts from different periods of his production, deriving from his various engagements in groups as CoBrA, the International movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus and The Situationist International. All these endeavors tented to subvert the predominance of cultural capitals and the homogenization of European avant-garde movements. As a counterpoint, specific national traditions are used to enforce the development of art in the Post-war period.

     

    Per Bäckström, Stockholm – Capital of the Nordic Avant-Gardes of the 1960s

    The topic of this article are challenges inherent in writing the history of the Nordic neo-avant-garde. Firstly, I will present a brief outline of the historical situation in which the movement developed in the 1960s, with focus on Stockholm as the cultural capital of the time, and on the international exchange that took place between artists and groups. Secondly, the “art-works” of the neo-avant-garde will be discussed. These can often be characterized as both cross-aesthetic and performative, a fact that articulates certain problems for a historical analysis. I will proceed from the easily describable to more complex issues, in order to illustrate some of the main difficulties for the study of the Nordic avant-garde.

     

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  • Deshima, n° 3

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    RENDEZ-VOUS MANQUÉS ?

     

    Histoires de rendez-vous manqués, le numéro 3 de la revue thématique annuelle Deshima vient de paraître. Il présente, en près de 500 pages, un épais dossier sur l’anthropologue et linguiste J.P.B. Josselin de Jong, un autre (en grande partie en langue anglaise) sur l’Extrême-Orient vu par des scientifiques allemands et scandinaves à l’époque de la VOC (dont un article sur l’île de Deshima !), quelques articles sur Calvin et le calvinisme, deux nouvelles et des poèmes d’auteurs néerlandais en traduction française, un essai sur le romancier W.F. Hermans et, pour finir, une escapade sous les rafales bataves.

     

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    Table des matières

     

    Avant-propos                  Thomas Beaufils (p. 5)

     

    Dossier : J.P.B. de Josselin de Jong

    Biographie de J.P. B. de Josselin de long (p. 11)

    Discours de Claude Lévi-Strauss (prononcé lors de la remise du prix Erasme 1973) (p. 13)

    Thomas Beaufils, « Tache aveugle ». L’absence d’un contrepoint visuel a-t-elle été fatale au « structuralisme » hollandais ? (p. 21)

    Nicoletta Diasio,Au grand air. L’écriture photographique de Claude Lévi-Strauss, contrepoint visuel du structuralisme (p. 47)

    Kirsten Beukenkamp, Entre décolonisation et démocratisation de l’université : Quelle place pour une anthropologie des mondes contemporains aux Pays-Bas ? (p. 67)

    Jean-Baptiste Beaufils, Rêve et culture chez J. P. B. De Josselin de long (p. 81)

     

    Choix d'articles de J. P. B. de Josselin de jong

    Les danses des Piegans (p. 105)

    Histoire de la linguistique (p. 131)

    Types culturels et phases culturelles (p. 163)

    L’archipel malais, un champ d’étude ethnologique (p. 189)

    Manifeste (p. 209)

    Un peuple en devenir (p. 213)

    Les Indes de Meijer Ranneft (p. 219)

    Culture et rêve (p. 239)

    De l’ethnolinguistique (p. 255)

     

    Les pays du Nord et l’Extrême-Orient

    Thomas Mohnike, L’Europe du Nord et l’Extrême-Orient au temps de la VOC. Quelques remarques introductives (p. 275)

    Susanne Friedrich, Gottorf et ses collections d’histoire naturelle provenant des Indes orientales. Objets et « savoir» des non-spécialistes (p. 285)

    Stefan Ehrenpreis, Germans in the VOC : scribal communication, patronage and family relations (p. 303)

    Martin Krieger, The Dutch Beginnings of the Danish intro-Asiatic trade (p. 311)

    Wolfgang Behschnitt, The Dutch East lndia Company in a Swedish perspective. The 1667-edition of Nils Matson Kiöping’s and Olof Eriksson Willmans travel accounts (p. 321)

    Peter Rietbergen, Japon and Europe ca 1800: the pivotal role of Deshima (p. 337)

    Carl Jung, An Exchange of ldeas: C.P. Thunberg’s Encounter with the Scholars of Western Studies in Japon (p. 359)

     

    Savants mélanges

    Spiros Macris, Le calvinisme hollandais et la mécanique des consciences (p. 379)

    Spiros Macris, Un pamphlet différé. Vondel : Op de Ionghste Hollantsche Transformatie (p. 393)

    Anonyme, La prédestination. Extrait des Canons du Synode de Dordrecht (p. 399)

    Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, La Hollande et l’influence de Calvin (p. 405)

     

    Lettres néerlandaises

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    Willem Frederik Hermans fumant une Gauloise

    4ème du recueil de nouvelles De laatste roker

     

    Vonne van der Meer, L’adieu à Phœbé (p. 423)

    Willem ]an Otten, Chronique d’un fils qui devient père (p. 433)

    Willem Jan Otten, BW-PLO (poème) (p. 450)

    Gerry van der Linden, Poèmes (p. 451)

    Raymond J. Benders, Solitude, ma mère (essai sur W.F. Hermans) (p. 465)

     

    Au fil du vent du nord

    Gilles Fumey, Moulins et vélos aux Pays-Bas : quand le vent est dans la roue (p. 481)

    Auteurs (p. 489)

    Résumés (p. 491)

     

    Résumés (sauf textes traduits et textes anciens)

     

    Thomas Beaufils, So many things left to do... the forgotten texts of J.P.B. de Josselin de Jong

    Through a closer observation, Dutch’s anthropologists are not very interested in the works of J.P.B. de Josselin de Jong. Of course, we can read a series of articles on the famous FAS (Field of anthropological study), the concept developed by JPB in his well-known inaugural discourse: “The Malay Archipelago as a field of ethnological study”. Meanwhile, by J.P.B.’s death, in a memoriam which dated back to 1965, anthropologist Van Baal found hard to find the qualities of our researcher: “What did this man have, so that he were able to assure such influence? It’s not his life, nor his works”. To Lévi-Strauss, the Dutch have done everything to denigrate their own research’s’ results. At the French’s side, we have been participating in an embellishment process to emphasize the works of Lévi-Strauss, which naturally finish by gaining the entire merit. At the same time, the works of J.P.B. are also as prominent. But there is still so much to do to revalorise and to embellish these works and also to make it more accessible to publics. JPB’s family owns documents (photos, letters) which researchers obtain piece hy piece. Unpublished manuscripts await to be published one day. This article focuses on the necessity of giving lights on his life on the study fields. So that one day he will gain the place he merits. 

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    J.P.B. Josselin de Jong, portrait reproduit dans la revue Deshima

     

    Nicoletta Diasio, “In the open air”. Photography by Claude Lévi-Strauss, a visual counterpoint of the structuralism

    The pictures realized by Lévi-Strauss during the expeditions in Brazil (1935-1939), reveal some implicit tensions in all the work of the author: the oscillation between scientific rigorous concern and passion for the artistic creation, the report of the rational and the sensitive as means of knowledge, the imperative of the distance and the implicitly reflexive dimension. His photographic style weaves between the fascination for the « savage », the nostalgia of the fugitive and the wish to give a body, a face and a concrete presence to the ethnographic subjects. It discloses the change of paradigm in the fieldwork during the 30s.

     

    Kirsten Beukenkamp, Between decolonization and democratization of university: Where to place the anthropology of the contemporary world in the Netherlands?

    Dutch anthropology is strongly related to the national colonial history in which it finds its origins and to empiricism in comparison to theoretical frameworks. Anthropology of the contemporary world seems, as it questions these elements, not to have found its place in the Netherlands yet. These elements are equally present at local level. By looking at the positions and work of the Utrecht University anthropologists and the preparation of my own master research, the article tries to understand the present-day definition and meaning of Dutch anthropology as well as the new possibilities a contemporary anthropology could offer.

     

    Jean-Baptiste Beaufils, “Culture and dream” of J.P.B. de Josselin de Jong

    In his 1946 conference, Culture and dream, De Josselin de Jong seeks to establish the individual / culture report from the unconscious point of view. To this end, he questions the anthropological theories, very fashionable at the time, using Freudian theory of latent and manifest contents of the dream. But he severely criticised and rejected them when they try a junction between individual and culture by using the concept of the prevalence of symbolism in the dream. Actually, unbeknownst to him, these criticisms recur the real thought of Freud: the theory of the interpretation by the symbol is really to attribute to Jung. Well, Freud separated from Jung for the most part for that point. For his part, De Josselin de Jong concluded that it was not the approach that was absurd, but the concepts used. So, it was necessary to suspend to find the solution. My researches in development of the book De la colonisation de l’esprit allowed me to notice that further to De Josselin de Jong, Lacan and Lévi-Strauss, each constructed a piece of the solution. On the one hand, a model of the dynamics of language in the performances of an individual through the transformations in his individual myth in the cure (diagram double mirror). On the other hand, in the culture, by the myth and its dynamic in the collective, universalized by the canonical formula of myths. It appears that a culture in potential is directly organized in the individual at the level of a pre-oedipe. Freud has assumed it from his clinic. This pre-historic oedipal is the dream umbilicus and the object of a denial.

     

    Susanne Friedrich, Gottorf and his natural history collections from oriental Indies - objects and “knowiedge” of the “unlearned” authors

    This article deals with the inventory of the ‘Kunstkammer’ in Gottorf and three travelogues edited by Adam Olearius in the middle of the 17th century. During the production of these books Olearius faced objects of the Gottorf collection and the cognitions of ‘unlearned’ authors with approved knowledge. On the basis of examples mostly from the Indonesian area, a specific interaction between site, practices, accounts, and objects can be observed. This results in a more complex conception of the Scandinavian contribution to European knowledge in regard to Asia.

     

    Stefan Ehrenpreis, Germans in the VOC – scribal communication, patronage and family relations

    The paper discusses the importance of scribal communication of employees of the VOC for the spread of knowledge about Asia in the German-speaking countries. Departing from the very different examples of Johannes Stahlenbecker and Willem van Imhoff, it is shown that the distance between two continents did not define the social space established by communication. On the contrary, letters permitted to integrate people in over-sea contexts into early modern societies in Europe. As the example of Imhoff shows, letters were important for the long-term stability of family relations between Europe and Asia. The letters of Stahlenbecker served to prolong constructions of patronage. Additionally, they were read publicly and became a mean for the transmission of individual experiences of Europeans in Asia and were, thus, an important source of knowledge of Asia.

     

    Martin Krieger, The Dutch Beginnings of the Danish intra-Asiatic trade

    This paper investigates the Dutch impact on the establishment of Danish trade in the Indian Ocean region. It can be shown that the Dutch VOC served as a model for the foundation of the first Danish East India Company on an institutional as well as on a personal level. Private Dutch enterprise entered into a fruitful, but also dangerous liaison with the efforts of the Danish monarchy to enhance overseas trade during the first half of the seventeenth century.

     

    Wolfgang Behschnitt, The Dutch East India Company in a Swedish perspective. The 1667-edition of Nils Matson Kiöping’s and Olof Eriksson Wiliman’s travel accounts

    The first Swedish travel accounts from the East Indies were published in 1667. Their authors, Nils Matson Kiöping and Olof Eriksson Willman, had both served in the Dutch East India Company, so their accounts can serve as proof for the important role the VOC played for the spreading of knowledge about the new colonial world in Scandinavia. This article aims to interrogate the particular manner in which their publication transported, transformed and sometimes even distorted this knowledge subject to political and economic tensions between Sweden and the Netherlands. Special attention will be given to Willman’s description of Japan and its relation to François Caron’s widely spread account.

     

    Peter Rietbergen, Japan and Europe ca 1800. The pivotal role of Deshima

    Due to economic-political reasons, around the turn of the 18th century, Deshima was almost unreachable for Europeans. This negatively impacted the cultural transfer that had been going on since the 1630s. This essay describes the various groups who constituted the complex chain through which various kinds of textual / material culture were mediated between Japan and the West. It analyses their interests in the process. The article stresses that, during the two centuries of Deshima’s unique role, in Europe at least knowledge about Japan was not cumulative but, rather repetitive, also because each generation needed to create its own image of Japan. The important contribution - but unfortunately little impact - of the work of Isaac Titsingh, in this very period, is dealt with in detail. Last, but not least, attention is given to Japan’s (changing) interest(s) in things European, between scholarly / scientific curiosity and exoticism – Japan’s ‘occidentalist’ phase mirrors Europe’s ‘orientalist’ gaze. I argue that, moreover, in many ways, Japan’s authorities manipulated Europe for its own ends.

     

    Carl Jung, An Exchange of Ideas. C.P. Thunberg’s Encounter with the Scholars of Western Studies in Japan

    During his stay in Japan as an employee of the Dutch United East India Company in the years 1775 and 1776, the Swedish physician and botanist Carl Peter Thunberg (1743-1828) had the opportunity to engage in an extensive intellectual discussion with a number of Japanese scientists that were versed in the so called Western sciences. Whereas the exchange of goods with overseas regions was very common in 18th century Europe, this is a rare example of an exchange of ideas with extra-European people.

     

    Spiros Macris, Dutch Calvinism and the mechanism of the conscience

    This paper explores the conflict between secular power and the Reformed Church in the Netherlands. In the early 17th century, the young Republic needed a strong and unified Reformed Church to preserve the confederation, but it could not tolerate the Calvinists’ theocratic claim. For this reason, the Reformation’s influence was to be cultural instead of religious: even dissenters and the large Catholic community accepted it.

    And still today, with only 19 % Reformed churchgoers, while Catholics can count on 29 %, and despite 42 % non-believers, Calvinist ethics are widely accepted and part of Dutch national identity.

     

    Gilles Fumey, When the wind is in the wheel. Windmills and bicycles in the Netherlands

    Without any doubt, wind constructs the Netherlands. Windmills have permitted to gain some lands over the sea. Bicycles induce extensions of the city and play an incomparable art of living in Europe. The genius spirit of the Dutch is to have, in each phase of their history, domesticated the wind by the wheels. Whether for windmills or bicycles, there is an equal attention given to space, which spread from the fascination for the wheels.

     

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  • Deshima, une île, une revue

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    Une jeune revue

    Deshima, revue française des mondes néerlandophones

     

     

    Deshima est la seule revue française consacrée aux pays et territoires relevant - en partie ou totalement - de la néerlandophonie, à savoir les Pays-Bas, la Belgique, l'Afrique du Sud, le Nord de la France, le Surinam, Aruba et les Antilles néer- landaises, la Namibie, l'Indonésie.

     

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    Deshima (ou Déjima) était une petite île artificielle dans la baie de Nagasaki au Japon. Les Néerlandais ont eu l’autorisation de s’y installer dès 1641 pour y faire du commerce avec les Japonais. Seule fenêtre du Japon sur l’Occident pendant des décennies, elle a été un lieu d’échanges culturels entre une élite japonaise lisant et parlant le néerlandais et des marchands de la Compagnie néerlandaise des Indes orientales ainsi que des savants, dont trois ont réalisé des découvertes importantes et ont contribué à faire la richesse de certains musées : Engelbert Kaempfer (1651-1716), Carl Thunberg (1743-1828) et Philipp von Siebold (1796-1866). Cette situation a aussi permis à des Néerlandais, qui ont laissé de nombreux témoignages écrits, de faire une fois l’an le voyage de l’île jusqu’à la capitale.

    Quelques écrivains ont choisi Deshima comme cadre d’un roman : Bertus Aafjes (1914-1993) qui, dans Een lampion voor een blinde (Un lampion pour un aveugle, 1973), conte une aventure du juge Ooka ou encore Nicolaas Berg (pseudonyme de Peter Rietbergen) dont le roman historique  Dood op Deshima of: de Weg en de Orde (Mort à Deshima ou : Le Chemin et l’Ordre, 2000) met en scène un médecin néerlandais et son jeune disciple japonais au milieu du XVIIe  siècle. Titia, the First Western Woman in Japan (2003) narre de manière romancée l’existence de l’aïeule de l’auteur – le Canadien René Bersma –, une Néerlandaise qui, malgré l’interdiction faite aux étrangères de se rendre au pays du soleil levant, a tenu à accompagner son mari à Deshima, devenant ainsi la première et la seule femme non japonaise (avec ses deux servantes) à fouler le sol de l’île avant l’ouverture du pays au reste du monde. Quant à l’auteur britannique  David Mitchell, il prépare un roman historique sur Deshima à la période 1790-1805.

    Aujourd’hui, l’île de Deshima est perdue au milieu d’un océan de routes et de buildings, mais des traces du passage des Néerlandais y sont toujours palpables.

    deshima,japon,revue,pays-bas,flandre,néerlandaisFondée en 2007, la revue Deshima (annuelle) accueille des articles de spécialistes des sciences humaines ou exactes, des textes anciens oubliés ainsi que des nouvelles ou des poèmes d’écrivains d’expression néerlandaise traduits en français (par exemple des nouvelles de Beb Vuyk et de Louis Couperus dans le numéro de 2008). Deux numéros ont paru à ce jour proposant pour le premier un dossier sur le boire et le manger aux Pays-Bas, tandis que le deuxième s’intéresse à « la Hollande, radeau submergé par les vagues ». Le troisième qui sera publié au printemps 2009 portera sur l'anthropologue J.P.B. de Josselin de Jong ainsi que sur certains savants nordiques et leur approche des Indes néerlandaises.

     

     

     

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