'n Ontleding van Hertzogpryswenners se uitgeweryprofiele in terme van die Afrikaanse literêre netwerk en met behulp van Sosiale-netwerk-analise (SNA)

Die Hertzogprys word beskou as een van die Afrikaanse literere pryse wat oor die meeste prestige beskik, en dit het daarom 'n sterk kanoniserende waarde. Binne die sisteemteorie word aangevoer dat literere pryse binne 'n netwerk funksioneer, en verbind is met ander instellings en rolspelers binne die netwerk, onder andere uitgewerye. Uitgewerye wat meer literere pryswenners oplewer, wen aan literere prestige, wat tot voordeel strek van nuwe skrywers wat by hierdie uitgewerye publiseer. In hierdie artikel word die netwerkteorie aangewend om ondersoek in te stel na watter uitgewerye die meeste betrokke is by die publikasie van werke wat uiteindelik met die Hertzogprys bekroon word. Uitgewerye en skrywers se rolle word aangetoon ten opsigte van graadsentraliteit, nabyheidsentraliteit, tussenliggingsentraliteit en spilwaarde met betrekking tot die prys, ten einde te bepaal watter uitgewerye en skrywers die aktiefste betrokke is by hierdie subnetwerk van die Afrikaanse literere netwerk. Daar word ook ondersoek ingestel na die struktuur van hierdie subnetwerk, ten einde te bepaal of dit dieselfde strukturele kenmerke as komplekse netwerke in ander dissiplines vertoon. An analysis of the publishing profiles of winners of the Hertzog Prize in terms of the Afrikaans literary network and using Social Network Analysis (SNA) It has become an accepted principle in the study of especially Afrikaans and Dutch literature that literary works are their status due not only to the activities of writers or the texts' intrinsic characteristics, "maar ook en vooral aan andere actoren die gericht zijn op symbolische (critici, docenten, tijdschriftredacteuren, jury's) of materiele productie (uitgevers, boekhandelsketens, boekenclubs)" [but also and especially to other actors aimed at symbolic (critics, teachers, journal editors, juries) or material production (publishers, bookstore chains, book clubs)] (Van Rees and Dorleijn 2006:18). Since Even-Zohar proposed his polysystem hypothesis in the 1970s, numerous literary studies have been conducted from a systems theory perspective, often in conjunction with Bourdieu's field theory. From both these perspectives the above-mentioned actors within the literary system contribute to a text's status as literature, and to understand the dynamics of the literary system and how the mechanisms of canonisation function, it is therefore paramount to study a text's relationships with other role players. Publishing houses play an especially important role in constructing the literary canon, as Verboord (2003:271) writes: "The more authors of a high literary status on the publisher's list, the more prestigious the publishing house, and the more this prestige reflects on other less prestigious authors on the publisher's list. " In terms of the Dutch literary system, Verboord, Janssen and Van Rees (2006:295) argue that De Bezige Bij and Querido are the most prestigious publishing houses, capable of reflecting their prestige on to newcomers whose works are published here, which raises the question as to which publishing houses fulfil similar roles in the Afrikaans literary system.