Uiting gee aan die privaatste emosies: Joan Hambidge in intertekstuele gesprek met Emily Dickinson. (Afrikaans)

One of the procedes in Joan Hambidge's oeuvre is a perennial intertextual dialogue with other poets, artists and movie stars. For Snyman (2016) the poet engages with these so-called supplementary alter egos and the conversation forms the basis of her metapoetic reflections on the writing process. From a reading of a selection of poems by Hambidge on the enigmatic American poet Emily Dickinson we deduce that the two poets from two worlds (and centuries) apart share an obsession with writing, both have to deal with a sense of loneliness and both address their poems to an absent Other. Whereas Hambidge's love poems are overt lesbian poems, Emily Dickinson is believed to have sublimated her desire for another woman in her poems. Not only is Dickinson a major interlocutor in the work of Joan Hambidge but also in the work of several Afrikaans women poets, as Lina Spies (1991) alluded to in her study of the interchange between Dickinson and Elisabeth Eybers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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