Founding Fictions Of The Dutch Caribbean

Author : Diana Lebacs
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1433194279

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Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean by Diana Lebacs Pdf

"This satirical novel is set in the heady atmosphere of carnival on the tropical Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao, where the contradictions of postcolonial existence come to a boil that is furious, often bitingly funny, and sometimes almost intolerably tragic. And through it all, the story manages by way of a genuinely African derived rhythm to offer a message of hope. The heroine of the novel is Bir, a woman in her late sixties, the mama grandi with her ancient wisdom, a solid root of the community, dispensing medicinal herbs, advice, and motherly love. The flavor of the island is unmistakable: it is an authentic Curaçaoan story by noted Curaçaoan author Diana Lebacs. Not only is it Curaçaoan in its subject matter but in the way the story is told. It is serious but full of humor, from gentle irony to slapstick, with a lot of social satire in between. Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean: Diana Lebacs' The Longest Month (De Langste Maand), originally written in Dutch, is suitable for courses on Caribbean and postcolonial literature, women's writing, and for readers of fiction in general"--

Author : Diana Lebacs,Olga E. Rojer,Joseph O. Aimone
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1433194260

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The Longest Month (de Langste Maand) by Diana Lebacs,Olga E. Rojer,Joseph O. Aimone Pdf

This satirical novel is set in the heady atmosphere of carnival on the tropical Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao, where the contradictions of postcolonial existence come to a boil that is furious, often bitingly funny, and sometimes almost intolerably tragic. And through it all, the story manages by way of a genuinely African derived rhythm to offer a message of hope. The heroine of the novel is Bir, a woman in her late sixties, the mama grandi with her ancient wisdom, a solid root of the community, dispensing medicinal herbs, advice, and motherly love. The flavor of the island is unmistakable: it is an authentic Curaçaoan story by noted Curaçaoan author Diana Lebacs. Not only is it Curaçaoan in its subject matter but in the way the story is told. It is serious but full of humor, from gentle irony to slapstick, with a lot of social satire in between. Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean: Diana Lebacs' The Longest Month (De Langste Maand), originally written in Dutch, is suitable for courses on Caribbean and postcolonial literature, women's writing, and for readers of fiction in general.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0820488194

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Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean by Anonim Pdf

Cola Debrot's «My Black Sister» and Boeli van Leeuwen's A Stranger on Earth are two pivotal works from the early period of postcolonial Dutch-language fiction from the Dutch Caribbean. Each portrays different aspects of the predicament of postcolonial identity, gender, race, and politics in the vein best known as «tropic existentialism». Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean is suitable for courses on Caribbean literature and postcolonial literature, and will be of great interest to readers of fiction in general.

Author : Carel de Haseth
Publisher : Postcolonial Studies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Master and servant
ISBN : 1433118211

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Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean by Carel de Haseth Pdf

Carel de Haseth's novella Slave and Master (Katibu di Shon), written in the Creole language Papiamentu, dramatizes the August 17, 1795 slave revolt on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao. The story is told through an alternating series of dramatic monologues by two key characters: Luis, a slave, and a leader of the revolt; and Shon Welmu, his childhood friend and white heir to the slave plantation. The exposition begins shortly after the revolt has been crushed, as Luis awaits his brutal execution, and it ends with his preemptive suicide. The theme is the acceptance of the inevitablity of emancipation. Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean: Carel de Haseth's Slave and Master (Katibu di Shon) is suitable for courses on Caribbean literature and postcolonial literature, and will be of great interest to readers of fiction in general.

Author : Olga E. Rojer,Joseph O. Aimone
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1433116057

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Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean by Olga E. Rojer,Joseph O. Aimone Pdf

Carel de Haseth's novella Slave and Master (Katibu di Shon), written in the Creole language Papiamentu, dramatizes the August 17, 1795 slave revolt on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao. The story is told through an alternating series of dramatic monologues by two key characters: Luis, a slave, and a leader of the revolt; and Shon Welmu, his childhood friend and white heir to the slave plantation. The exposition begins shortly after the revolt has been crushed, as Luis awaits his brutal execution, and it ends with his preemptive suicide. The theme is the acceptance of the inevitablity of emancipation. Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean: Carel de Haseth's Slave and Master (Katibu di Shon) is suitable for courses on Caribbean literature and postcolonial literature, and will be of great interest to readers of fiction in general.

Author : Jeroen Dewulf,Michiel van Kempen,Olf Praamstra
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443844437

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Shifting the Compass by Jeroen Dewulf,Michiel van Kempen,Olf Praamstra Pdf

While the inclusion of a hybrid perspective to highlight local dynamics has become increasingly common in the analysis of both colonial and postcolonial literature, the dominant intercontinental connection in the analysis of this literature has remained with the (former) motherland. The lack of attention to intercontinental connections is particularly deplorable when it comes to the analysis of literature written in the language of a former colonial empire that consisted of a global network of possessions. One of these languages is Dutch. While the seventeenth-century Dutch were relative latecomers in the European colonial expansion, they were able to build a network that achieved global dimensions. With West India Company (WIC) operations in New Netherland on the American East Coast, the Caribbean, Northeastern Brazil and the African West Coast, and East India Company (VOC) operations in South Africa, the Malabar, Coromandel and the Bengal coast in India, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Malacca in Malaysia, Ayutthaya in Siam (Thailand), Tainan in Formosa (Taiwan), Deshima in Japan and the islands of the Southeast Asian archipelago, the Dutch achieved dominion over global trade for more than a century. Paraphrasing Paul Gilroy, one could argue that there was not just a “Dutch Atlantic” in the seventeenth century but rather a “Dutch Oceanus.” Despite its global scale, the intercultural dynamics in the literature that developed in this transoceanic network have traditionally been studied from a Dutch and/or a local perspective but rarely from a multi-continental one. This collection of articles presents new perspectives on Dutch colonial and postcolonial literature by shifting the compass of analysis. Naturally, an important point of the compass continues to point in the direction of Amsterdam, The Hague and Leiden, be it due to the use of the Dutch language, the importance of Dutch publishers, readers, media and research centers, the memory of Dutch heritage in libraries and archives or the large number of Dutch citizens with roots in the former colonial world. Other points of the compass, however, indicate different directions. They highlight the importance of pluricontinental contacts within the Dutch global colonial network and pay specific attention to groups in the Dutch colonial and postcolonial context that have operated through a network of contacts in the diaspora such as the Afro-Caribbean, the Sephardic Jewish and the Indo-European communities.

Author : H. Adlai Murdoch
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781978815742

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The Struggle of Non-Sovereign Caribbean Territories by H. Adlai Murdoch Pdf

The Struggle of Non-Sovereign Caribbean Territories is an essay collection made up of two sections; in the first, a group of anglophone and francophone scholars examines the roots, effects and implications of the major social upheaval that shook Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, and Réunion in February and March of 2009. They clearly demonstrate the critical role played by community activism, art and media to combat politico-economic policies that generate (un)employment, labor exploitation, and unattended health risks, all made secondary to the supremacy of profit. In the second section, additional scholars provide in-depth analyses of the ways in which an insistence on capital accumulation and centralization instantiated broad hierarchies of market-driven profit, capital accumulation, and economic exploitation upon a range of populations and territories in the wider non-sovereign and nominally sovereign Caribbean from Haiti to the Dutch Antilles to Puerto Rico, reinforcing the racialized patterns of socioeconomic exclusion and privatization long imposed by France on its former colonial territories.

Author : Theo Hermans
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 743 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781571132932

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A Literary History of the Low Countries by Theo Hermans Pdf

An authoritative volume that is the first literary history of the Netherlands and Flanders in English since the 1970s

Author : Albert James Arnold,Julio Rodríguez-Luis,J. Michael Dash
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9027234485

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A History of Literature in the Caribbean: English- and Dutch-speaking countries by Albert James Arnold,Julio Rodríguez-Luis,J. Michael Dash Pdf

For the first time the Dutch-speaking regions of the Caribbean and Suriname are brought into fruitful dialogue with another major American literature, that of the anglophone Caribbean. The results are as stimulating as they are unexpected. The editors have coordinated the work of a distinguished international team of specialists. Read separately or as a set of three volumes, the History of Literature in the Caribbean is designed to serve as the primary reference book in this area. The reader can follow the comparative evolution of a literary genre or plot the development of a set of historical problems under the appropriate heading for the English- or Dutch-speaking region. An extensive index to names and dates of authors and significant historical figures completes the volume. The subeditors bring to their respective specialty areas a wealth of Caribbeanist experience. Vera M. Kutzinski is Professor of English, American, and Afro-American Literature at Yale University. Her book Sugar's Secrets: Race and The Erotics of Cuban Nationalism, 1993, treated a crucial subject in the romance of the Caribbean nation. Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger has been very active in Latin American and Caribbean literary criticism for two decades, first at the Free University in Berlin and later at the University of Maryland. The editor of A History of Literature in the Caribbean, A. James Arnold, is Professor of French at the University of Virginia, where he founded the New World Studies graduate program. Over the past twenty years he has been a pioneer in the historical study of the Négritude movement and its successors in the francophone Caribbean.

Author : Gordon Collier,Geoffrey V. Davis,Marc Delrez,Bénédicte Ledent
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004338081

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The Cross-Cultural Legacy by Gordon Collier,Geoffrey V. Davis,Marc Delrez,Bénédicte Ledent Pdf

Contributions on various areas of postcolonial literature, including the work of Wilson Harris, the ground-breaking writer to whom the influential university teacher and literary critic Hena Maes–Jelinek devoted much of her career.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : English imprints
ISBN : UCR:31210023575382

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Translation Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : A. James Arnold
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027298331

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A History of Literature in the Caribbean by A. James Arnold Pdf

For the first time the Dutch-speaking regions of the Caribbean and Suriname are brought into fruitful dialogue with another major American literature, that of the anglophone Caribbean. The results are as stimulating as they are unexpected. The editors have coordinated the work of a distinguished international team of specialists. Read separately or as a set of three volumes, the History of Literature in the Caribbean is designed to serve as the primary reference book in this area. The reader can follow the comparative evolution of a literary genre or plot the development of a set of historical problems under the appropriate heading for the English- or Dutch-speaking region. An extensive index to names and dates of authors and significant historical figures completes the volume. The subeditors bring to their respective specialty areas a wealth of Caribbeanist experience. Vera M. Kutzinski is Professor of English, American, and Afro-American Literature at Yale University. Her book Sugar’s Secrets: Race and The Erotics of Cuban Nationalism, 1993, treated a crucial subject in the romance of the Caribbean nation. Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger has been very active in Latin American and Caribbean literary criticism for two decades, first at the Free University in Berlin and later at the University of Maryland. The editor of A History of Literature in the Caribbean, A. James Arnold, is Professor of French at the University of Virginia, where he founded the New World Studies graduate program. Over the past twenty years he has been a pioneer in the historical study of the Négritude movement and its successors in the francophone Caribbean.

Author : Evelyn O'Callaghan,Tim Watson
Publisher : Caribbean Literature in Transi
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781108475884

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Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800-1920: Volume 1 by Evelyn O'Callaghan,Tim Watson Pdf

This volume explores Caribbean literature from 1800-1920 across genres and in the multiple languages of the Caribbean.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066180434

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2426 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Languages, Modern
ISBN : PSU:000057121345

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MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures by Anonim Pdf