Description

• Title:
  The image of Central and Eastern Europe in Dutch literary nonfiction
• Creator:
  Sterckx, Jo
• Description:
  Over the last 20 years, literary nonfiction has become increasingly popular among the Dutch reading public. Thanks to increasing sales, translations and literary awards the genre achieved a strong position in Dutch literature. This article analyzes the image of Central and Eastern European countries in Dutch literary nonfiction of the last ten years (2004-14). It searches for characteristics of an orientalist and balkanist discourse and the presence of the imagological centre-periphery model in the works of Geert Mak, Jelle Brandt Corstius, Olaf Koens, Joop Verstraten and Jan Brokken. Contemporary Dutch literary nonfiction contains a euro-orientalist discourse. Characteristics such as underdevelopment, hedonism, obscurity and authenticity are projected on Central and Eastern Europe, which is put in the periphery of Western Europe.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ ;
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2014 Jo Sterckx
• Date:
  2014.07.17
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Peer-reviewed articles
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Werkwinkel; Vol. 9 No. 1 (2014); 9-22;
  Werkwinkel; Tom 9 Nr 1 (2014); 9-22;
  2719-2938;
  1896-3307
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/werk/article/view/werk-2014-0001/28463
• Subject:
  literary nonfiction;
  Dutch literature;
  euro-orientalism;
  balkanism;
  imagology;
  centre-periphery model;
  Central and Eastern Europe
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/werk/article/view/werk-2014-0001
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  other