Dominee Nicolaas Beets: "De familie Kegge" (1851) in het perspectief van de afschaffing van de slavernij

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2013

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Department of Dutch and South African Studies, Faculty of English

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Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism (1993) offers opportunities for rereading and re-interpretation of canonical historical literary works by way of focussing on the relation between culture and empire. Nicolaas Beets, “De familie Kegge,” seems to be a good example for this “contrapuntal reading.” The short novel protests in a mild way against slavery and behaviour of slave owners and plantation owners in the Caribbean. In later work Beets proves to have become a fierce anti-slavery advocate, an aspect of his work that until now is hardly ever discussed and has been neglected in traditional criticism.

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Dutch literature in the 19th century, Edward W. Said, contrapuntal reading, Caribbean sugarplantations, slavery and anti-slavery movement in the Netherlands, imperialism, interpretation problems, canon

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Werkwinkel vol. 8(2), 2013, pp. 61-79

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1896-3307

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