Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean: Cola Debrot's «My Black Sister» and Boeli Van Leeuwen's a Stranger on Earth

By Cola Debrot and Boeli van Leeuwen

Cola Debrot's My Black Sister and Boeli van Leeuwen's A Stranger on Earth are two pivotal works from the early period of postcolonial Dutch-language fiction from the Dutch Caribbean. Each portrays different aspects of the predicament of postcolonial identity, gender, race, and politics in the vein best known as tropic existentialism . Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean is suitable for courses on Caribbean literature and postcolonial literature, and will be of great interest to readers of fiction in general.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820488194
• ISBN13: 9780820488196
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.