Brown Nieces and Nephews in an All-White World: Gender and Genre in Dutch Children’s Novels about the Dutch East Indies, 1890-1930
This article discusses children’s novels about Eurasian children who were sent from the Dutch East Indies to the Netherlands for the purpose of character reformation. The corpus shows a remarkable dominance of girl characters, while in actual practice it was mostly Eurasian boys who were sent away for secondary education. I explain this discrepancy between literary text and socio-historical context through the shaping influence of literary genre – that is, of the tomboy story in this particular case. This deflection largely invalidates colonial children’s novels as reliable sources of informat... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2020 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, Vol 135, Iss 3-4 (2020) |
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Schlagwörter: | History of Low Countries - Benelux Countries / DH1-925 |
Sprache: | Englisch Niederländisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28987295 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doaj.org/article/78af504fe27f4806b17c05acc69b71fb |