Internationale Neerlandistiek - Volume 54, Issue 1, 2016

Abstract ‘There is no justice for us…’: Van Hogendorp’s abolitionist play Kraspoekol (1800) as a trial against slavery Theatre plays in which social abuses are criticised often display striking parallels to the civic court. Both in trials and theatre performances the complaining party is positioned against someone who defends the accused person or issue, each propagating different viewpoints towards a case, whereupon a judge h Read More

Abstract ‘The devil taketh those people who grew up in wealth and sloth’: Indianised Europeans, a danger to the colonial system From contemporary fiction on sea voyage appears a striking image. The ships that sailed between The Netherlands and Dutch East Indies, amidst 1850 and 1890, formed a micro colony: a compressed version of a colonial society. Practically, all components of a colonial community are re Read More

Abstract Länderschwerpunkt Niederlande: The Siegfried Unseld Archives and Dutch literature In 2009 Deutsches Literaturarchiv in Marbach (DLA) acquired the Siegfried Unseld Archives (SUA). SUA covers the period from 1945-2002 and includes material from the publishing houses such as Suhrkamp Verlag, Insel Verlag, Jüdischer Verlag and Deutscher Klassiker Verlag. The archive constitutes an important resource not only Read More

Abstract ‘Juggling with big words’: Register variation in Hugo Claus’s De verwondering (1962) The prose of Hugo Claus has been the subject of broad scholarly interest, regarding – amongst other things – intertextuality and allegories. The presence of various, contrasting language registers has been briefly touched upon, but has – mainly because of the lack of an appropriate research method – never been studied in greater Read More