Mirror of the Indies: A History of Dutch Colonial Literature (Library of the Indies)

This is the definitive literary history of the colonial Dutch East Indies. Included is a discussion of fictional works and also of materials ranging from religious sermons and pamphlets to the accounts of travelers from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries. There have been two movements in our literature, wrote Busken Huet, that of the "systematic humanists," and that of the poets, such as the patricians Hooft and Huygens, who kept one ear cocked to the vernacular, and provided abundant proof of knowing it very well indeed. Rob Nieuwenhuys ; Translated By Frans Van Rosevelt ; Edited By E.m. Beekman. Translation Of: Oost-indische Spiegel. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.