Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean: Cola Debrot's "My Black Sister" and Boeli Van Leeuwen's A Stranger on Earth

Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean: Cola Debrot's "My Black Sister" and Boeli Van Leeuwen's A Stranger on Earth
ISBN-10
0820488194
ISBN-13
9780820488196
Category
Caribbean fiction (Dutch)
Pages
158
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
Peter Lang

Description

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.

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