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Werkwinkel
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2014
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vol. 9
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issue 1
9-22
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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.
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The newest aspects of contemporary postcolonial studies and the possibility of their application to the analysis of cultural practices in Eastern Europe are observed in the article. In the center of analysis is the deconstruction of the discourse of orientalism and an appearance of the phenomena of post-orientalism. Post-orientalism is viewed regarding an opposition between postcoloniality as a form of exotisation of the other by popular culture and postcolonialism as a form of inversion of a Eurocentrism narrative. There are two models of postcolonial writing studied in the article — a European romance in the contemporary Ukrainian writing and an immigrant romance in the novel by Marina Lewycka A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian.
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