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Of backyards and hinterlands : ‘Cairojan’ and Dutch Caribbean literature
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dc.contributor.author | Ostendorf, Thalia | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-12-12T12:30:07Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-12-12T12:30:07Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-03-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Ostendorf , T 2023 , ' Of backyards and hinterlands : ‘ Cairojan ’ and Dutch Caribbean literature ' , Dutch Crossing , vol. 47 , no. 1 , pp. 35-48 . https://doi.org/10.1080/03096564.2022.2144597 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0309-6564 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 282396104 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: 9f151f2a-74c9-47b1-8011-e9fe7e9758d5 | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 85144078433 | |
dc.identifier.other | WOS: 000893451200001 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/26575 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article will compare two works by two Black Surinamese authors from the last century: Anton de Kom (1898–1945) and Edgar Cairo (1948–2000). While keenly aware that the Netherlands/the Dutch Empire has shaped their world by forceful and violent means, in their writing both Cairo and de Kom effectively push the Netherlands to the margins. In these texts it is present as the evil force to be fought, or as the invisible past evils that have created the present, but these stories are not about the Dutch or The Netherlands. De Kom counters the Dutch narratives and heroes with those of the enslaved people who escape to the hinterlands (het binnenland), while Cairo flaunts white colonial norms with his story of what he calls ‘the backyard’ (het erf). De Kom’s hinterland and Cairo’s backyard echo chronotopes such as Paul Gilroy’s slave ship and Édouard Glissant’s metaphors of the plantation, the hinterland and the creole language. These are conceptions of the Caribbean and Black diasporic history, voicing some of the ways in which ‘culture happened’ in spite of the efforts of colonization and the plantation system, offering an alternative that is native to a transplanted people/diasporic people. | |
dc.format.extent | 14 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Dutch Crossing | en |
dc.rights | Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | en |
dc.subject | Edgar Cairo | en |
dc.subject | Anton de Kom | en |
dc.subject | Chronotope | en |
dc.subject | Plantation | en |
dc.subject | Pan-Caribbean | en |
dc.subject | Édouard Glissant | en |
dc.subject | PT Germanic literature | en |
dc.subject | GN Anthropology | en |
dc.subject | T-NDAS | en |
dc.subject | NIS | en |
dc.subject | MCC | en |
dc.subject.lcc | PT | en |
dc.subject.lcc | GN | en |
dc.title | Of backyards and hinterlands : ‘Cairojan’ and Dutch Caribbean literature | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.description.version | Publisher PDF | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. French | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1080/03096564.2022.2144597 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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