‘You inherited that trait from your Eurasian mother’:The representation of mixed-race characters in Dutch colonial literature

This article addresses the portrayal of Eurasians, descendants from interracial relationships between colonizer and colonized, in nineteenth-century Dutch literature set in colonial Indonesia. As racial in-between group, Eurasians occupied a complex position within colonial society. The European community in the Dutch East Indies was a widely differentiated group that consisted of both white Europeans (i.e. ‘racially pure’) and Eurasians (racially mixed). Although equal before the law, in colonial imagination, an opposition existed between these two groups. The colonial representation of Euras... Mehr ...