Mirror of the Indies: A History of Dutch Colonial Literature - Rilegato

Nieuwenhuys, Robert; Beekman, E. M.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0870233688 ISBN 13: 9780870233685

Casa editrice: Univ of Massachusetts Pr, 1982

Riassunto

This book is the definitive literary history of the colonial Dutch East Indies and is partially distinguished from its predecessors by its discussion of materials ranging from natural history and religious sermons to pamphlets and the accounts of travelers from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries. What emerges from this comprehensive approach is an unusually thorough and sensitive account of the manifold encounters of the Dutch with the East Indian societies that they conquered, tried to understand, and, finally, had to relinquish under the inevitable pressures of change and the desire for independence. This history records how a hybrid literature emerges from that of the colonial culture to become a distinct literature of its own and why the concepts derived from European cultural history such as baroque or neoclassicism are totally inapplicable to the works discussed here.

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Born in Java in 1908, the son of a Dutch father and a mother of Javanese-Dutch descent, Rob Nieuwenhuys also wrote (under the psudonym E. Breton de Nijs) Faded Portraits.

Born in Java in 1908, the son of a Dutch father and a mother of Javanese-Dutch descent, Rob Nieuwenhuys also wrote (under the psudonym E. Breton de Nijs) Faded Portraits.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Univ of Massachusetts Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1982
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0870233688
• ISBN 13: 9780870233685
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 336
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile