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The Postcolonial Low Countries is the first book to bring together critical and comparative approaches to the emergent field of neerlandophone postcolonial studies. The collection of essays ranges across the cultures and literatures of the Netherlands and Belgium and establishes an encounter between postcolonial theoretical discourses from both within and without the region. Each one of the contributions puts under pressure the definitive concepts of postcolonial studies in its more conventional anglophone or francophone formation, as well as perceptions of the Low Countries, Belgium and the Netherlands, as lying outside or to the side of the postcolonial domain.
In the Low Countries, local and regional issues concerning multiculturalism and colonial belatedness have raised important questions about the possible grounds on which postcolonial critical concepts might be not only translated but also generated afresh, to suit these paradoxically new contexts. As The Postcolonial Low Countries incisively demonstrates, the Low Countries demand a careful rearticulation of such postcolonial 'readymades' as hybridity, accommodation and creolization.
Gathering together contributions from both internationally renowned scholars and newly established researchers in the field, The Postcolonial Low Countries maps previously underexplored national and transnational literary critical trajectories. The book challenges in boundary shifting ways current readings of the so-described multicultural and postcolonial Netherlands and Belgium.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction: Postcolonialism and the Low Countries, Elleke Boehmer and Sarah De Mul
Part 1: Towards a Neerlandophone Postcolonial Studies
Chapter 2. Postcolonial Studies in the context of the 'diasporic' Netherlands, Elleke Boehmer and Frances Gouda
Chapter 3. Polderpoko: why it cannot exist, Isabel Hoving
Chapter 4. The "Ends" of Postcolonialism, Theo D'haen
Chapter 5. "Is the headscarf oppressive or emancipatory?" Field notes on the gendrification of the 'multicultural debate', Sarah Bracke and Nadia Fadil
Part 2: Postcolonial Memory
Chapter 6. (Un)happy Endings: Nostalgia in post-imperial and postmemory Dutch films, Pamela Pattynama
Chapter 7. Transnational Contact-Narratives: Dutch Post-Coloniality from a Turkish-German Viewpoint, Liesbeth Minnaard
Chapter 8. Representing post-apartheid South Africa: mothers, motherlands and mother tongues in the work of selected Afrikaans women writers, Louise Viljoen
Chapter 9. The Holocaust as a Paradigm for the Congo Atrocities: Adam Hochschil
