De Marokkaanse slagerszoon zonder brilletje: De classificatie van Abdelkader Benali's werk in de Nederlandse en Vlaamse journalistieke kritiek

This article discusses the reception of Abdelkader Benali's work, a Dutch writer of Moroccan origin. I analyse a corpus of 82 journalistic reviews in order to trace cultural classifications. Ever since the literary debuts of immigrant writers were published, from the second half of the nineties onwards, literary reviewers and scientists have debated about their position in the Dutch literary field. I distinguish two main approaches according to literary theorist Urszula Topolska: the so-called integrating and separating approach. The integrating approach considers these writers to be part of D... Mehr ...