Verhalen van Matsombo : Jef Geeraerts’ beeld van de “Kongo-crisis” in Het verhaal van Matsombo
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2001-04
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AOSIS Publishing
Abstract
Matsombo’s stories: Jef Geeraerts’s representation of the “Congo crisis”
in Het verhaal van Matsombo
The so-called Congo crisis (1960-1965) received a great deal of attention
internationally. A literary response in Dutch to what happened in the former
Belgian colony is Het verhaal van Matsombo (Matsombo’s story) by
Flemish writer and former colonial civil servant, Jef Geeraerts. Until now,
little critical attention has been given to Het verhaal van Matsombo,
despite regular reprints of the text. This article researches how the Congo
crisis is represented in Geeraerts’s novel. Although Geeraerts’s depiction
of colonial conflict is, in certain respects, close to that of Franz Fanon,
Geeraerts’s is ultimately a Western view.
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CITATION: Huigen, S. 2001. Verhalen van Matsombo : Jef Geeraerts’ beeld van de 'Kongo-crisis' in Het verhaal van Matsombo. Literator, 22(1): 155-162, doi: 10.4102/lit.v22i1.356
The original publication is available at http://www.literator.org.za
The original publication is available at http://www.literator.org.za
Keywords
Geeraerts, Jef -- Criticism and interpretation, Geeraerts, Jef. Het verhaal van Matsombo, Flemish literature -- History and criticism, Post-colonial writing, Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo crisis in literature
Citation
Huigen, S. 2001. Verhalen van Matsombo : Jef Geeraerts’ beeld van de 'Kongo-crisis' in Het verhaal van Matsombo. Literator, 22(1): 155-162, doi: 10.4102/lit.v22i1.356