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Contemporary Explorations in the Culture of the Low Countries
An all inclusive study of Netherlandic culture.
Women's Writing from the Low Countries 1880-2010
This first-of-its-kind anthology offers the English-speaking readers a unique chance to become acquainted with the leading Dutch and Flemish women writers since the 1880s. Covering a representative range of public and private genres from poetry, criticalessays, travel literature and political commentary to diaries and journals, the fifty-six texts are arranged chronologically and are accompagnied by brief introductions, chronologies, and brief guides to the authors and works. An important contribution to our understanding of modern European literary canon and the long march of feminist history and literature. (Dutch ed.: "Schrijvende vrouwen", 978-90-8964-216-5).
Bali in the Early Nineteenth Century
In Bali in the Early Nineteenth Century, Helen Creese examines the nature of the earliest sustained cross-cultural encounter between the Balinese and the Dutch through the eyewitness accounts of Pierre Dubois, the first colonial official to live in Bali. From 1828 to 1831, Dubois served as Civil Administrator to the Badung court in southern Bali. He later recorded his Balinese experiences for the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences in a series of personal letters to an anonymous correspondent. This first ethnography of Bali provides rich, perceptive descriptions of early nineteenth-century Balinese politics, society, religion and culture. The book includes a complete edition and translation of Dubois’ Légère Idée de Balie en 1830/Sketch of Bali in 1830.
Atlantic Automobilism
Offering a sweeping transatlantic perspective, this book explains the current obsession with automobiles by delving deep into the motives of early car users. It provides a synthesis of our knowledge about the emergence and persistence of the car, using a broad range of material including novels, poems, films, and songs ...
Dutch Interbellum Canons and World Literature A. Roland Holst, M. Nijhoff, J. Slauerhoff
This text takes a wholly new look at a major early twentieth-century Dutch poet and novelist from the perspective of world literature, situating his work in both a national and a world literary context as measured against contemporaries and near-contemporaries such as Conrad, Pound, Brecht, Segalen, and Malraux. Exemplifying how an author from a “minor” literature may be a “major” world author, this book considers the debates within World Literature regarding the classification of literatures as ‘major’ and ‘minor’, canon formation within Dutch literature, Slauerhoff's position in the Dutch tradition as well as well as his contribution to world literature, particularly focusing on his East Asian poems, his East Asian novels and stories and his poetry and prose set in Latin America. This book is a key read for scholars and students of comparative literature, world literature, European literature, and Dutch literature. Lucid in style, innovative in approach, surprisingly fresh qua topic, this book opens new horizons for literary studies.
Branie
Als actieve strijdster voor vrouwenrechten was Mina Kruseman in de jaren zeventig van de negentiende eeuw een meer dan opvallende verschijning. Ze werd verguisd, bewonderd en door iedereen besproken. Door haar prikkelende voorkomen, haar indrukwekkende voordracht en haar feministische boodschap trok ze sterk de aandacht. Ze versmaadde het traditionele vrouwenleven en maakte zich als een van de eersten sterk voor de onafhankelijkheid en economische zelfstandigheid van vrouwen. Kruseman keerde zich tegen oorlog en militarisme; ze schreef romans, toneelstukken en voerde polemieken; ze declameerde, acteerde en beproefde haar geluk als concertzangeres in Amerika. Het is aan Kruseman te danken dat...
