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Jules de Palm: The Dutch West-Indian Man
by Blake Sonnenfeld
A mention of Jules de Palm as a great figure in Dutch-Caribbean literature is to underrate his almost hundred-year long life. To a great extent, De Palm personified the Dutch West-Indian colonial history. His literary links featured heavily on topics in Aruba, and Curaçao. His approach to Caribbean literature was undeniably transformational in its scope, but more so in its tendency of speaking directly to social consequences of colonial history through its characters, and in multiple Dutch colonial contexts.
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