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Why Rara burns Judas during Lent
Rethinking the Origins of Catholic Elements in Haitian Culture from an Afro-Iberian Perspective
by Jeroen Dewulf
Until the 1980s, Catholic elements in Haitian culture tended to be interpreted exclusively in connection to the forced conversion of the enslaved population under French rule. This changed following John Thornton’s groundbreaking research into the development of Christianity in early modern Africa—Kongo in particular—and the awareness that a significant number of enslaved Africans already identified as Christian before their arrival in Saint-Domingue. This article’s goal is to go beyond Thornton’s research
read on…Online boekpresentatie Afro-Atlantic Catholics
This Saturday, August 20, at 10:00 AM, ET, Prof. Jeroen Dewulf, University of California, Berkeley, will discuss his new book, Afro-Atlantic Catholics: America’s First Black Christians.
read on…Flying Back to Africa or Flying to Heaven?
Competing Visions of Afterlife in the Lowcountry and Caribbean Slave Societies
by Jeroen Dewulf
This article presents a new interpretation of the famous folktale about enslaved Africans flying home, including the legend that only those who refrained from eating salt could fly back to Africa. It rejects claims that the tale is rooted in Igbo culture and relates to suicide as a desperate attempt to escape from slavery. Rather, an analysis of historical documents in combination with ethnographic and linguistic research makes it possible to trace the tale back to West-Central Africa. It relates objections to eating salt to the Kikongo expression curia mungua (to eat salt), meaning baptism, and claims that the tale originated in the context of discussions among the enslaved about the consequences of a Christian baptism for one’s spiritual afterlife.
read on…荷兰抵抗文学的德国与德国人 形象(１９４０—１９４５)
In de German Studies of Peking University verscheen het artikel “Helan dikang wenxue de Deguo yu Deguo Ren xingxiang (1940-1945)”, ofwel: Nederlandse verzetsliteratuur en het beeld van het Duitse Rijk en het Duitse volk (1940-1945) van Jeroen Dewulf.
read on…Rethinking the Historical Development of Caribbean Performance Culture from an Afro-Iberian Perspective
The Case of Jankunu
by Jeroen Dewulf
This article advocates for a new perspective on Caribbean performance traditions by adopting an Afro-Iberian perspective. It argues that we are able to acquire a better understanding of the historical development of some of the most enigmatic Caribbean performances, including Jankunu, by taking into consideration that many of those who built the foundations of Afro-Caribbean culture had already adopted cultural and religious elements rooted in Iberian traditions before their arrival in the Americas.
read on…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.
read on…Grijs slavernijverleden?
Over Grijs Slavernijverleden? van Jeroen Dewulf
door Michiel van Kempen
In Grijs slavernijverleden? Over Zwarte milities en redimoesoegedrag bekijkt Jeroen Dewulf, hoogleraar aan de University of California, Berkeley, de groep van de ‘redimoesoes’, de zogenoemde “zwarte overlopers” die collaboreerden met de koloniale macht in het 18de-eeuwse Suriname. Hij slaagt er met zijn studie in een vermenselijking en een nuancering van het beeld van deze soldaten van het Neger Vrijcorps of Korps Zwarte Jagers en hun tegenstanders, de marrons, te bewerkstelligen. read on…
From Papiamentu to Afro-Catholic Brotherhoods
An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Iberian Elements in Curaçaoan Popular Culture
by Jeroen Dewulf read on…
De koningen van Pinksteren en van de Kongo
door Hilde Neus
The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo: opmerkelijke titel voor een opmerkelijk boek: wat zouden Pinksteren en een Kongokoning nou met elkaar te maken hebben? Als uitgangspunt heeft Jeroen De Wulf, de auteur, een citaat genomen van Sojourner Truth (1797-1883), een zwarte Amerikaanse activiste voor burger- en vrouwenrechten, die bekend is geworden vanwege haar levensverhaal. Voor ons is het onbegrijpelijk dat ze aangaf dat ze terug wilde naar haar eigenaar, John Dumont, om het pinksterfeest mee te vieren. Onbegrijpelijk, want ze was slechts enkele maanden daarvoor weggelopen, omdat hij haar sloeg, ondanks beloften haar niet had vrijgemaakt en zelfs haar zoon Peter had verkocht. Blijkbaar was het vieren van het pinksterfeest zo iets bijzonders, dat ze dat erg miste. read on…
From the Kingdom of Kongo to Congo Square: Kongo Dances and the Origins of the Mardi Gras Indians
From the Kingdom of Kongo to Congo Square: Kongo Dances and the Origins of the Mardi Gras Indians by Jeroen Dewulf presents a provocatively new interpretation of one of New Orleans’s most enigmatic traditions—the Mardi Gras Indians. By interpreting the tradition in an Atlantic context, Dewulf traces the “black Indians” back to the ancient Kingdom of Kongo and its war dance known as sangamento. Enslaved Kongolese brought the rhythm, dancing moves, and feathered headwear of sangamentos to the Americas in performances that came to be known as “Kongo dances.” read on…
Shifting the Compass: Literature from the Dutch Antilles and Suriname
by Marja Kingma
Five years ago, from 15-17 September 2011, The Dutch Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley organised a conference on Dutch literature overseas: ‘Colonial and Postcolonial Connections in Dutch Literature’. A selection of papers presented at this conference was published as Shifting the Compass: Pluricontinental connections in Dutch Colonial and Postcolonial Literature (Newcastle, 2013; British Library YC.2013.a.14249). read on…
The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo: The Forgotten History of America's Dutch-Owned Slaves
The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo presents the history of the nation’s forgotten Dutch slave community and free Dutch-speaking African Americans from seventeenth-century New Amsterdam to nineteenth-century New York and New Jersey. read on…
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