Dutch Studies in Saint Petersburg Stands on Sturdy Ground
At Saint Petersburg State University, translation studies and interpreting are important subjects within the study of Dutch language and culture.
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High Road to Culture in Flanders and the Netherlands
At Saint Petersburg State University, translation studies and interpreting are important subjects within the study of Dutch language and culture.
Birney's throat-grabbing novel 'The Interpreter from Java' about the colonial past in the Dutch East Indies highlights the lasting consequences of a civil war in a penetrating way.
The fourth and final stage of our cycling trip on the Via Belgica takes us from Heerlen to Cologne.
A lifetime after the end of the colonial era, Dutch Indies literature still plays off colonial myths and realities against each other, and finds words for painful, half-forgotten things.
‘Postcolonial Mirror’ and ‘New Colonial Reading List’ are two new important books on Dutch East Indies literature. Both editions aim at a complete revision of the existing image.
The Low Countries' view of the United States has gradually changed from admiration to sadness and frustration.