Troubled pleasures
Subtitle: Dutch colonial literature from the East Indies, 1600-1950
By: E.M. Beekman.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 654
Subjects: Indonesian literature (Dutch) -- History and criticism.; Authors, Dutch -- Indonesia -- Biography.; Indonesia -- In literature.
Description: This is the first comprehensive examination of Dutch colonial literature in English. From the journals and travelogues produced by the early mariners, to the fictional recollections of repatriated colonials after the Second World War, E. M.

Beekman's unique and magisterial survey of this major colonial literature places literary figures within specific epochs, provides biographical portraits, and examines works in relation not only to their own genres but also to the literatures and cultures beyond their colonial borders. Written by the leading authority in the field, this fascinating and wide-ranging study is enhanced by a consideration of the general political history of European expansion and of the Dutch East Indies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [605]-629) and index.