Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean: Cola Debrot's «My Black Sister» and Boeli van Leeuwen's <I>A Stranger on Earth</I>
«This book of painstaking translation signifies an increasingly flourishing and highly welcomed interest in the literature of the Dutch Caribbean. It will delight readers with its poignant renderings of the sheer poetry of its source texts, their lush tropical imagination, and searing exposures of conflicted postcolonial subjectivity. This is a book you will read over and over again, and then again.» (Maurice A. Lee, Editor, ‘Journal of Caribbean Literatures’; Dean, College of Liberal Arts, University of Central Arkansas)«‘Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean’ brings to English language readers well-wrought translations of two seminal writers of the Dutch Caribbean, Cola Debrot and Boeli van Leeuwen. Widely acclaimed by readers of Dutch, evincing powerful dimensions of postcolonial reality and imagination, these are works of world significance with their rare beauty, sultry grace, and profound human compassion.» (Aart G. Broek, Author of ‘Het Zilt van de Passaten’ and ‘De Kleur van mijn Eiland’)