MIRROR OF THE INDIES: A HISTORY OF DUTCH COLONIAL LITERATURE.

Nieuwenhuys, Rob.

ISBN 10: 0870233688 / ISBN 13: 9780870233685

Published by University of Massachusetts, 1982., 1982

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New edition. 8vo. [xxx] + 336pp. Original cloth. Pictorial brown d/w. lettered in white and black, very good. ISBN 0870233688 US$22.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: MIRROR OF THE INDIES: A HISTORY OF DUTCH COLONIAL LITERATURE.
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts, 1982.
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870233688
• ISBN 13: 9780870233685
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • HISTORY, MILITARY & TRANSPORT

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.