| Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean: Cola Debrot's «My Black Sister» and Boeli Van Leeuwen's a Stranger on Earth Contributor(s): Rojer, Olga E. (Author), Aimone, Joseph O. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820488194 ISBN-13: 9780820488196 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $51.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History - Literary Criticism | European - German - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 860 |
| LCCN: 2006035126 |
| Physical Information: 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |