The postcolonial Low Countries : literature, colonialism, and multiculturalism / edited by Elleke Boehmer and Sarah De Mul.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boehmer, Elleke, 1961-

Mul, Sarah de.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dutch literature--History and criticism.

Dutch literature.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Civilization.

Social conditions.

Benelux countries--Social conditions.

Benelux countries.

Netherlands--Civilization--Foreign influences.

Netherlands.

Physical Description:

vi, 260 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [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. Each one of the contributions puts under pressure the definitive concepts of postcolonial studies in its more conventional anglophone or francophone formation, well as perceptions of the Low Countries, Belgium and the Netherlands, as lying outside or to the side pf the postcolonial domain. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Postcolonialism and the Low Countries / Elleke Boehmer Boehmer, Elleke, Sarah De Mul Mul, Sarah De 1

Section I Towards a Neerlandophone Postcolonial Studies

2 Postcolonial Studies in the Context of the "Diasporic" Netherlands / Elleke Boehmer Boehmer, Elleke, Frances Gouda Gouda, Frances 25

3 Polderpoko: Why It Cannot Exist / Isabel Hoving Hoving, Isabel 45

4 The "Ends" of Postcolonialism / Theo D'haen D'haen, Theo 59

5 "Is the Headscarf Oppressive or Emancipatory?" Field Notes on the Gendrification of the "Multicultural Debate" / Sarah Bracke Bracke, Sarah, Nadia Fadil Fadil, Nadia 73

Section II Postcolonial Memory

6 (Un)happy Endings: Nostalgia in Postimperial and Postmemory Dutch Films / Pamela Pattynama Pattynama, Pamela 97

7 Transnational Contact-Narratives: Dutch Postcoloniality from a Turkish-German Viewpoint / Liesbeth Minnaard Minnaard, Liesbeth 123

8 Representing Post-Apartheid South Africa: Mothers, Motherlands and Mother Tongues in the Work of Selected Afrikaans Women Writers / Louise Viljoen Viljoen, Louise 139

9 The Holocaust as a Paradigm for the Congo Atrocities: Adam Hochschild's King Leopold's Ghost / Sarah De Mid Mid, Sarah De 63

Section III Literature and Multiculturalism

10 Dutch Homonationalism and Intersectionality / Murat Aydemir Aydemir, Murat 187

11 Becoming UnDutch: "Wil je dat? Kun je dat?" / Mireille Rosello Rosello, Mireille 203

12 Unlike(ly) Home(s): "Self-orientalisation" and Irony in Moroccan Diasporic Literature / Ieme van der Poel Poel, Ieme van der 221

13 "Games of Deception" in Hafid Bouazza's Literary No Man's Land / Henriette Louwerse Louwerse, Henriette 239.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739164280

0739164287

9780739164303

0739164309

OCLC:

773019403