The Dutch Transatlantic Slave Trade
Ramona Negrón, Jessica den Oudsten, Camilla de Koning, Karwan Fatah-Black (eds)
- Title
- Slavery in the Cultural Imagination
- Subtitle
- Debates, Silences and Dissent in the Neerlandophone Space
- Price
- € 146,00 excl. VAT
- ISBN
- 9789463728799
- Format
- Hardback
- Number of pages
- 362
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 24 - 03 - 2025
- Dimensions
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Series
- Slavery and Emancipation
- Categories
- Cultural Studies
- Diachronic
- Dutch and The Netherlands
- Heritage Studies
- Interdisciplinary Studies
- Discipline
- History, Art History, and Archaeology
1. Introduction – Marrigje Paijmans
Literary Imaginations
2. Enslaved to the Passions: Slavery, Emotions, and Trade in a Seventeenth-Century Dutch Comedy – Marrigje Paijmans
3. ‘Pleasant and Useful Reading for Dutch Youth’: Attitudes on Slavery in A. E. van Noothoorn’s Fictional Travel Accounts for Children (1843-1851) – Claudia Zeller
4. Convict Labour and Concubinage in the Dutch East Indies: Historical and Literary Reappropriations of Martha Christina Tiahahu’s Anti-Colonial Revolt – Gerlov van Engelenhoven
Intersecting Imaginations
5. The Elephant and Slavery: Thinking about Slavery through the Animal in the Early Modern Dutch Empire (1650-1800) – Pichayapat Naisupap
6. Law as a Sociocultural Imaginary: Legal Arguments, Social Hierarchy and Pro-Slavery in the Dutch Republic, ca. 1760-1780 – Gertjan Schutte
7. Januari’s Ghost: A Tale of Slavery, Sexuality, and Boyhood on Board of a VOC Vessel – Alicia Schrikker
8. Transformative Work: An Antislavery Petition at the National Exhibition of Women’s Labour, 1898 – Sophie van den Elzen
Visual and Spatial Imaginations
9. Not Absent, But Not Seen: Narrating the History of Slavery at the Cape – Carine Zaayman
10. (Re)Visualising Slavery: An Outlook on the Indian Ocean and Indonesian Archipelago – Nancy Jouwe
11. Making an Embodied Absence Present: Tourism and the Cultural Imaginary of Slavery and Colonial Heritage in the Netherlands – Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong
12. Reframing History: The Artistic Reclamation of Colonial Photography and the Quest for De-victimisation – Brenda Bikoko
13. Imagining Dutch Slavery Legacies Through the Rural-Urban Divide in the TV-show Grenslanders – Anke Bosma
Philosophical Imaginations
14. Born in Bondage: Slavery, Freedom, and Enlightenment in Spinoza – Hasana Sharp
15. Coordinates of a Slave’s Body in a Philosopher’s Dream – Thomas van Binsbergen
16. Human-ing Out Loud: Ontologies of Disorder in a Musically Exemplified Trans-Caribbean Option – Charissa Granger and Francio Guadeloupe
17. Epilogue: Histories of Imagination and the Making of Cultural Archives – Susan Legêne
Literary Imaginations
2. Enslaved to the Passions: Slavery, Emotions, and Trade in a Seventeenth-Century Dutch Comedy – Marrigje Paijmans
3. ‘Pleasant and Useful Reading for Dutch Youth’: Attitudes on Slavery in A. E. van Noothoorn’s Fictional Travel Accounts for Children (1843-1851) – Claudia Zeller
4. Convict Labour and Concubinage in the Dutch East Indies: Historical and Literary Reappropriations of Martha Christina Tiahahu’s Anti-Colonial Revolt – Gerlov van Engelenhoven
Intersecting Imaginations
5. The Elephant and Slavery: Thinking about Slavery through the Animal in the Early Modern Dutch Empire (1650-1800) – Pichayapat Naisupap
6. Law as a Sociocultural Imaginary: Legal Arguments, Social Hierarchy and Pro-Slavery in the Dutch Republic, ca. 1760-1780 – Gertjan Schutte
7. Januari’s Ghost: A Tale of Slavery, Sexuality, and Boyhood on Board of a VOC Vessel – Alicia Schrikker
8. Transformative Work: An Antislavery Petition at the National Exhibition of Women’s Labour, 1898 – Sophie van den Elzen
Visual and Spatial Imaginations
9. Not Absent, But Not Seen: Narrating the History of Slavery at the Cape – Carine Zaayman
10. (Re)Visualising Slavery: An Outlook on the Indian Ocean and Indonesian Archipelago – Nancy Jouwe
11. Making an Embodied Absence Present: Tourism and the Cultural Imaginary of Slavery and Colonial Heritage in the Netherlands – Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong
12. Reframing History: The Artistic Reclamation of Colonial Photography and the Quest for De-victimisation – Brenda Bikoko
13. Imagining Dutch Slavery Legacies Through the Rural-Urban Divide in the TV-show Grenslanders – Anke Bosma
Philosophical Imaginations
14. Born in Bondage: Slavery, Freedom, and Enlightenment in Spinoza – Hasana Sharp
15. Coordinates of a Slave’s Body in a Philosopher’s Dream – Thomas van Binsbergen
16. Human-ing Out Loud: Ontologies of Disorder in a Musically Exemplified Trans-Caribbean Option – Charissa Granger and Francio Guadeloupe
17. Epilogue: Histories of Imagination and the Making of Cultural Archives – Susan Legêne
Marrigje Paijmans, Karwan Fatah-Black (eds)
Slavery in the Cultural Imagination
Debates, Silences and Dissent in the Neerlandophone Space
With the rising tide of scholarly and societal interest in the history and legacy of colonialism and slavery, this collection offers a much needed diachronic analysis of the cultural representations of the lives and afterlives of those subjected to slavery and indenture. It focuses on the history of the ‘neerlandophone’ space, defined as the complex linguistic space spanning former Dutch colonies. This collection gives a longue durée overview, with cases encompassing the period from the early modern period to the present-day, revealing the deep roots of the colonial ‘cultural archive’.
A wide variety of scholars demonstrate how attention to the layered and polyphonic qualities of narratives can reveal silent and disruptive voices in colonial discourse, as well as collective emotions and imaginations that have hitherto remained unrecorded in most historical sources. They discuss different aesthetic, poetical, and storytelling practices, including literature, photography, performance, philosophy, and other forms of knowledge production that were formed both in the metropolis and by enslaved and indentured peoples in the colonies.
A wide variety of scholars demonstrate how attention to the layered and polyphonic qualities of narratives can reveal silent and disruptive voices in colonial discourse, as well as collective emotions and imaginations that have hitherto remained unrecorded in most historical sources. They discuss different aesthetic, poetical, and storytelling practices, including literature, photography, performance, philosophy, and other forms of knowledge production that were formed both in the metropolis and by enslaved and indentured peoples in the colonies.
Editors
Marrigje Paijmans
Marrigje Paijmans works as Assistant Professor in Dutch Literature at the University of Amsterdam. She studies early modern literature from a critical analysis perspective to recover marginalised voices, thus balancing our understanding of the past. Her current project ‘Literary Unsettlements’ analyses voices of dissent in seventeenth-century colonial discourse. She has published on early modern theatre in Cultural Studies, on Spinozism and slavery in the Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies, and on the ethics of affect in Foucault Studies.
Karwan Fatah-Black
Karwan Fatah-Black is lecturer in social and economic history at Leiden University. He is a prominent voice in the academic and societal debates on colonial history and its legacies.
Karwan Fatah-Black is senior researcher at the Royal Dutch Institute for Caribbean and Southeast Asia Studies (KITLV-KNAW) and university lecturer at Leiden University. Since completing his PhD (2013) he has studied the history of the Atlantic world, enslavement, and emancipation strategies. With museums and heritage institutions he works on creating new narratives about the colonial past and post-colonial futures.
Karwan Fatah-Black is senior researcher at the Royal Dutch Institute for Caribbean and Southeast Asia Studies (KITLV-KNAW) and university lecturer at Leiden University. Since completing his PhD (2013) he has studied the history of the Atlantic world, enslavement, and emancipation strategies. With museums and heritage institutions he works on creating new narratives about the colonial past and post-colonial futures.
