'Laisse-moi te montrer mon pays!' Le regard du touriste dans les écrits des Indes néerlandaises Occidentales

Numerous texts by Surinamese, Dutch-Antillean and Aruban writers deal with the Middle Passage (the forced "migration" from Africa to the New World) and the life-long enslavement of millions of Africans. Strangely enough, in the very same period slavery was flourishing, tourism came into being. The exotic other became an object of western interest. What did the western world bring about in the head of the other ? In many Caribbean texts the tourist’s view is visible : the tension between the own view and the view of the other comes to the surface, sometimes explicitly, sometimes more covertly,... Mehr ...