Werkwinkel, 2008, vol. 3(1)

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Tussen balkanisme en oriëntalisme: Emants over Bosnië en Herzegovina
(Department of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of English, 2008) Novaković-Lopušina, Jelica
This article is an analysis of a travel journal written by the well-known Dutch novelist Marcellus Emants who, although strongly inspired by Naturalism, displayed a preference for romantic oriental images. Being solidly informed about the economic, political, multi-confessional and multi-ethnical reality of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the beginning of the twentieth century, he noted observations that would become typical for a future Balkan discourse in the Netherlands. Nevertheless, his attention was primarily drawn to the muslim society, because it allowed him to indulge in romatic visions of an oriental paradise lost.