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The Postcolonial Low Countries
Literature, Colonialism, and Multiculturalism
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2012
Summary
The Postcolonial Low Countries is the first book to bring together critical and comparative approaches to the emergent field of neerlandophone postcolonial studies. The collection of essays ranges across the cultures and literatures of the Netherlands and Belgium and establishes an encounter between postcolonial theoretical discourses from both within and without the region. Each one of the contributions puts under pressure the definitive concepts of postcolonial studies in its more conventional anglophone or francophone formation, as well as perceptions of the Low Countries, Belgium and the Netherlands, as lying outside or to the side of the postcolonial domain.
In the Low Countries, local and regional issues concerning multiculturalism and colonial belatedness have raised important questions about the possible grounds on which postcolonial critical concepts might be not only translated but also generated afresh, to suit these paradoxically new contexts. As The Postcolonial Low Countries incisively demonstrates, the Low Countries demand a careful rearticulation of such postcolonial ‘readymades’ as hybridity, accommodation and creolization.
Gathering together contributions from both internationally renowned scholars and newly established researchers in the field, The Postcolonial Low Countries maps previously underexplored national and transnational literary critical trajectories. The book challenges in boundary shifting ways current readings of the so-described multicultural and postcolonial Netherlands and Belgium.
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Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-6428-0
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-6430-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
260
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Ch01. Introduction No access Pages 1 - 22
Ch02. Postcolonial Studies in the Context of the “Diasporic” Netherlands No access
Ch03. Polderpoko No access
Ch04. The “Ends” of Postcolonialism No access
Ch05. “Is the Headscarf Oppressive or Emancipatory?” No access
Ch06. (Un)happy Endings No access
Ch07. Transnational Contact-Narratives No access
Ch08. Representing Post-Apartheid South Africa No access
Ch09. The Holocaust as a Paradigm for the Congo Atrocities No access
Ch10. Dutch Homonationalism and Intersectionality No access
Ch11. Becoming UnDutch: “Wil je dat? Kun je dat?” No access
Ch12. Unlike(ly) Home(s) No access
Ch13. “Games of Deception” in Hafid Bouazza’s Literary No Man’s Land No access
