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The Postcolonial Low Countries: exaggerated claim

door Jeroen Dewulf

As the editors Elleke Boehmer and Sarah De Mul of The Postcolonial Low Countries rightly argue, little attention has traditionally been paid to Dutchspeaking areas in global analysis of the cultural legacy of Europe’s colonial policies. In this respect, the publication of a new volume that attempts to reach a broad range of scholars interested in the legacy of Dutch and Belgian colonial policies in the contemporary Low Countries and their former overseas possessions in Africa, Asia, and the Americas should be welcomed.

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Eerste Indische Letterenlezing door Elleke Boehmer

Vrijdagmiddag 22 september zal Elleke Boehmer de eerste Indische Letterenlezing houden, onder de titel:
De toekomst van het postkoloniale verleden. De representatie voorbij. read on…

Vooys over transnationalisme en wereldliteratuur

Het zojuist verschenen nieuwe nummer van het tijdschrift voor letteren Vooys is geheel gewijd aan het thema Transnationalisme & Wereldliteratuur. read on…

Lezing Elleke Boehmer aan de VU: Travelling in the West

The Graduate School of Humanities cordially invites you to the lecture ‘Imperial, Victorian, Indian and Worldly: «Travelling in the West» in the Late 19th Century’ by prof. Elleke Boehmer (Oxford). read on…

Not a single word on Dutch-Caribbean people

by Jeroen Dewulf

[Review of: The Postcolonial Low Countries: Literature, Colonialism, and Multiculturalism. Edited by Elleke Boehmer and Sarah De Mul. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012. 266 pp. Cloth $ 90.00.]

As the editors Elleke Boehmer and Sarah De Mul of The Postcolonial Low Countries rightly argue, little attention has traditionally been paid to Dutch-speaking areas in global analysis of the cultural legacy of Europe’s colonial policies. In this respect, the publication of a new volume that attempts to reach a broad range of scholars interested in the legacy of Dutch and Belgian colonial policies in the contemporary Low Countries and their former overseas possessions in Africa, Asia, and the Americas should be welcomed. read on…

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