Nederlandse Letterkunde - Volume 25, Issue 3, 2020

Abstract Who is allowed to occupy which space in a multicultural society? Whose worlds and perspectives are represented in the fictional space? In this article we investigate the answers to these questions by means of a narratological analysis, informed by insights from postcolonial and cultural theory, of the novel Dertig dagen (2015) by Annelies Verbeke. While Saskia Pieterse (2014) suggests that in many recent novels ‘the Oth Read More

Abstract Dutch literary historians have nearly always regarded the genre of the river poem (in Dutch: stroomdicht) as uninteresting. When river poetry is discussed, it is usually discussed in the context of odes to cities. Anglo-Saxon literary historians have paid more attention to the genre of river poetry and interpreted the early-modern river poem in the context of both the search for national and regional identity and the co Read More