Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean: Cola Debrot's My Black Sister and Boeli van Leeuwen's a Stranger on Earth

by Cola Debrot, Boeli van Leeuwen, Olga E. Rojer (Translator)

Cola Debrot's « My Black Sister and Boeli van Leeuwen's A Stranger on Earth are two pivotal works from the early period of postcolonial Dutch-language fiction from the Dutch Caribbean. Each portrays different aspects of the predicament of postcolonial identity, gender, race, and politics in the vein best known as « tropic existentialism. Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean is suitable for courses on Caribbean literature and postcolonial literature, and will be of great interest to readers of fiction in general.

158 pages, Paperback

First published January 22, 2007

About the author

Nicolaas (Cola) Debrot was een Antilliaans schrijver, dichter, arts, diplomaat, jurist, minister, filosoof en balletcriticus. Hij wordt als de grondlegger van de Antilliaans-Nederlandse literatuur beschouwd. Debrot debuteerde in 1935 met de novelle Mijn zuster de negerin.