Isabel Hoving

Having been hired by a mysterious corporation called Gippart, twelve-year-old Josh--along with two friends and the ghost of his dead twin sister--finds himself trapped in "umaya," a place between dreams, time, and reality.

The Dream Merchant

De een na laatste dood van het meisje Capone / druk 1

The dream merchant

Drie kinderen beleven huiveringwekkende en levensgevaarlijke avonturen als vertegenwoordiger van een handelsonderneming die vreemde producten in de droomwereld verkoopt.

De gevleugelde kat

La compagnia del gatto volante

Philomena Essed

Dutch Racism is the first comprehensive study of its kind. The approach is unique, not comparative but relational, in unraveling the legacy of racism in the Netherlands and the (former) colonies. Authors contribute to identifying the complex ways in which racism operates in and beyond the national borders, shaped by European and global influences, and intersecting with other systems of domination. Contrary to common sense beliefs it appears that old-fashioned biological notions of “race” never disappeared. At the same time the Netherlands echoes, if not leads, a wider European trend, where offensive statements about Muslims are an everyday phenomenon. Dutch Racism challenges readers to question what happens when the moral rejection of racism looses ground. The volume captures the layered nature of Dutch racism through a plurality of registers, methods, and disciplinary approaches: from sociology and history to literary analysis, art history and psychoanalysis, all different elements competing for relevance, truth value, and explanatory power. This range of voices and visions offers illuminating insights in the two closely related questions that organize this book: what factors contribute to the complexity of Dutch racism? And why is the concept of racism so intensely contested? The volume will speak to audiences across the humanities and social sciences and can be used as textbook in undergraduate as well as graduate courses. Philomena Essed is professor of Critical Race, Gender and Leadership studies, Antioch University (USA), PhD in Leadership and Change Program. Her books and edited volumes include Everyday Racism; Understanding Everyday Racism, Race Critical Theories; A Companion to Gender Studies (“outstanding” 2005 CHOICE award); and, Clones, Fakes and Posthumans: Cultures of Replication. Isabel Hoving is diversity officer at the Leiden University and affiliated with the Department of Film and Literary Studies of Leiden University. Her books include In Praise of New Travellers, Veranderingen van het alledaagse, and several other volumes on migration, Caribbean literatures, African literature and art. In addition to her academic work, she is an awarded youth writer.

Dutch Racism

To come to terms with globalization, Caribbean writers adopt unexpected strategies. They write about flowers to help us look at race and sexuality differently. They see gardening as a means to make a violent, shapeless world livable. Writing the earth in a dark, queer turn to its materiality allows the imagining of human existence in a new way.

Globalization, Ecocriticism, and Desire

Writing the Earth, Darkly

Vuur- en waterdemonen proberen met hulp van drie jongeren, de Bliksems, in Europa het middelpunt van de aarde te vinden, om een catastrofale schok tot stand te brengen die het leven op aarde zal veranderen. Vanaf ca. 13 jaar.

De vulkaan van Wageningen

Het jaar 2099. De zestienjarige Ewa Capone is op de vlucht. Vier jaar geleden is haar vader om het leven gekomen bij een overval, een paar maanden geleden is haar moeder vermoord en nu hebben twee gewapende mannen het op háár leven gemunt. Ze heeft geen idee waarom. Op de hielen gezeten door gevaren doorkruist ze de waanzinnige, half virtuele wereld van het eind van de 21e eeuw. Moordlustige jeugdpolitie, next-gen maffia en klungelige engelen – en dan ook nog een aanstellerig maar bloedmooi meisje op hoge hakken, dat haar leven over wil nemen. En het allerverraderlijkst: de valstrikken van de liefde. Maar het meisje Capone geeft nooit op. Ze ziet altijd een uitweg. Zelfs als er geen uitweg meer is.

De een na laatste dood van het meisje Capone

Kathleen Gyssels

Maggie Ann Bowers

This bi-lingual volume of twelve English and eight French papers proposes to breach linguistic critical frontiers by placing analysis of texts from different language traditions in a multi-lingual and multi-cultural dialogue. The focus of analysis rests on the multiple and complex global convergences and interferences of cultural influences.

Newness in Intercultural Practices

Convergences and Interferences

Hester Catherine Dibbits

Marlou Schrover

1950-2000

Veranderingen van het alledaagse

Approaching postcolonial theory through cultural analysis, this book offers an accessible and concrete appraisal of current developments in postcolonial criticism. Detailed readings of a range of Anglophone Caribbean migrant women's texts from the late 1980s and 1990s lead to sharp insights into three issues that are crucial to an understanding of the field: place, voice, and silence. The discussion of these issues allows us to trace current feminist, postmodern, and postcolonial debates about the nature of the speaking subject, as it is emerging from today's postcolonial cultural practices. Postcolonial criticism often understands this subject as hybrid and multiple. This book shows how the specifics of this multiplicity must be acknowledged through analysis of the power structures and the violence through which this multiple subject is established. The book is also a consistent inquiry into reading positions. The argument about the differences between postcolonialist, black and Caribbean feminist, white feminist, and postmodern criticism is conducted as a discussion about the effects, insights, and blindnesses produced by these different ways of reading Caribbean migrant women's writing. Scrutinizing the grain of these texts encourages us to move beyond the kind of general statements for which postcolonial theory has been severely criticized. The author also extends her critique of reading positions to issues of methodology, using these approaches to direct her interpretation. Narratology is supplemented by an analysis of the interdiscursive processes through which texts are created, and psychoanalytic concepts are used to explore the ambiguous merits of postcolonial reading. Above all, In Praise of New Travelers celebrates the vigorous, subversive, and liberating creativity of an accomplished generation of Caribbean migrant women writers.

Isabel Hoving

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