Dominee Nicolaas Beets: "De familie Kegge" (1851) in het perspectief van de afschaffing van de slavernij
Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism (1993) offers opportunities for rereading and re-interpretation of canonical historical literary works by way of focussing on the relation between culture and empire. Nicolaas Beets, “De familie Kegge,” seems to be a good example for this “contrapuntal reading.” The short novel protests in a mild way against slavery and behaviour of slave owners and plantation owners in the Caribbean. In later work Beets proves to have become a fierce anti-slavery advocate, an aspect of his work that until now is hardly ever discussed and has been neglected in traditiona... Mehr ...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Artykuł |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 2013 |
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Department of Dutch and South African Studies
Faculty of English |
| Schlagwörter: | Dutch literature in the 19th century / Edward W. Said / contrapuntal reading / Caribbean sugarplantations / slavery and anti-slavery movement in the Netherlands / imperialism / interpretation problems / canon |
| Sprache: | unknown |
| Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29180102 |
| Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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| Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/10593/13747 |
Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism (1993) offers opportunities for rereading and re-interpretation of canonical historical literary works by way of focussing on the relation between culture and empire. Nicolaas Beets, “De familie Kegge,” seems to be a good example for this “contrapuntal reading.” The short novel protests in a mild way against slavery and behaviour of slave owners and plantation owners in the Caribbean. In later work Beets proves to have become a fierce anti-slavery advocate, an aspect of his work that until now is hardly ever discussed and has been neglected in traditional criticism.