The Low Countries and the New World(s): Travel, Discovery, Early Relations

by Johanna C. Prins, Bettina Brandt, Timothy Stevens, Thomas F. Shannon

Overview

The Low Countries and the New World(s) is a collection of specialized studies in the Netherlandic field, covering topics in Dutch Literature, Linguistics, History and Art History. This volume focuses on the tradition of travel, exploration and discovery of new worlds by the Low Countries throughout history. In the process, the Low Countries have reflected on their own character, expanded their experience by exploring other cultures and built small outposts of that culture in many places.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761819455
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	03/14/2001
Series:	Publications of the American Association for Netherlandic Studies Series , #13
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.26(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Johanna C. Prins is a Lecturer in Dutch Language and Literature at Columbia University.

Bettina Brandt teaches in the Department of Germanic Languages at Columbia University.

Timothy Stevens teaches in the Department of English at CUNY.

Thomas F. Shannon is the Director of the UC Education Abroad Center, Germany.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 Reflections on Literary History and Netherlandic Cultural Identity in the Medieval Period Chapter 5 Swannekens Ende Wilden: Linguistic Attitudes and Communication Strategies Among the Dutch and Indians in New Netherland Chapter 6 Rediscovering the Eighteenth Century, Rediscovering Early Discoveries: André Brink's Novel On the Contrary Chapter 7 Down and Out in Rotterdam in 1700: Aspects and Functions of Poor Relief in a Dutch Town Chapter 8 On the Vocabulary of the Dutch in Their Seventeenth-Century South American Colonies Chapter 9 Reality and Fiction: J. Slauerhoff's Het verboden rijk and Edward Said's Orientalism Chapter 10 Atheism in the Early Dutch Enlightenment Chapter 11 The Portrait of Cornelis Steenwyck and Dutch Colonial Experience in America Chapter 12 Seen and Unseen in the Visual Culture of Trade: The Conquest of Pepper Chapter 13 Worlds in Discourse in F. Springer's Novels Chapter 14 Wie het kleine niet eert: Intonation and the Pragmatics of Dutch Final Particles Chapter 15 Welkdom Yankeee Bevrijders: Soldiers and Civilians during the Liberation of the Netherlands 1944-1945 Chapter 16 Poetry and All that Jazz: The Composed Improvisation of J. Bernlef Chapter 17 E.J. Potgieter's and Conrad Busken Huet's Views of the United States Chapter 18 Masters and Slaves: Europeans Encountering Africans in Recent Historical Novels about Early White Settlement in Southern Africa Chapter 19 From Westbork to Auschwitz: The Function of Travel in the Diaries of Etty Hillesum Chapter 20 "The Downtrodden Christ in Each and Every One of Us:" Metaphysical Aspirations in Paul van 'staijen's Poetry and Poetics Chapter 21 Leipoldt and the Orient: A Reading of C.L. Leipoldt's Travel Writing in the Context of Orientalist Discourse Chapter 22 Dutch "Discovery" of the East during the Late Middle Ages

Editorial Reviews

These essays present an impressive array of approaches to the history of Dutch interactions with, colonization and understanding of other cultures.

Historians Of Netherlandish Art - Stephanie S. Dickey

These essays present an impressive array of approaches to the history of Dutch interactions with, colonization and understanding of other cultures.
— Stephanie S. Dickey, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

Historians Of Netherlandish Art

From a June 1996 interdisciplinary conference in New York, 19 selected papers reflect three currents in Netherlandic Studies: the traditional study of the language, literature and history; the cultural, historical, and linguistic studies of foreign language learners; and the response to some of their questions by specialists both within and beyond the Low Countries. They are not indexed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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