Colonial Memory: Contemporary Women''s Travel Writing in Britain and the Netherlands
ISBN: 9789048513857
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Amsterdam University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Language & Literature ; History;

Exploring the intersections of memory, gender, and the postcolonial, Colonial Memory explores the phenomenon of colonial memory through the specific genre of women's travel writing. Building on criticism of memory and travel writing, Sarah De Mul seeks to open Dutch literature to postcolonial themes and concepts and to insert the history of the Dutch colonies and its critical recollection into the traditionally Anglophone-dominated field of postcolonial studies.

"A vividly conceived and theoretically astute reading of the complicated weavings between the past and present involved in memory work and the process of nostalgic return."--Elleke Boehmer, University of Oxford
Sarah De Mul is a postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders in the Department of Literary Studies at Leuven University .
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