Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean - Brabander, Eric
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"The Life Everlasting of Doäna Lisa is a hard-boiled, minimalist, postmodern novel about perennial problems of postcolonialism. This is a tale of a failed attempt to escape Trinta di Mei, the postcolonial revolt of May 30, 1969, in Curaðcao. Edgar Raven, the central character, makes a consequential choice, to abandon Curaðcao temporarily during Trinta di Mei, bringing with him his two closest friends, for a "little vacation" to Venezuela to buy a new fishing boat. This choice unleashes an avalanche of consequences described in a narrative style that seems like a digressive festival of ideas…mehr

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"The Life Everlasting of Doäna Lisa is a hard-boiled, minimalist, postmodern novel about perennial problems of postcolonialism. This is a tale of a failed attempt to escape Trinta di Mei, the postcolonial revolt of May 30, 1969, in Curaðcao. Edgar Raven, the central character, makes a consequential choice, to abandon Curaðcao temporarily during Trinta di Mei, bringing with him his two closest friends, for a "little vacation" to Venezuela to buy a new fishing boat. This choice unleashes an avalanche of consequences described in a narrative style that seems like a digressive festival of ideas and philosophies, intellectual duets and arias stitched together with the clipped and brutal realism of the narration. Originally written in Dutch, the novel is suitable for courses on Caribbean and postcolonial literature, and for readers of fiction in general"--
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Curaçaoan author and essayist Eric de Brabander has written seven novels and two short story collections in Dutch. De Brabander has received international recognition for his books. The Life Everlasting of Doña Lisa is his debut novel. Olga E. Rojer, PhD, is associate professor emerita of German and Dutch Caribbean Studies at American University in Washington DC. The Life Everlasting of Doña Lisa is her fourth translated volume in the Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean series published by Peter Lang. Joseph O. Aimone, PhD, collaborated with Olga E. Rojer on the Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean series, including this volume.