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Animals in Dutch travel writing, 1800-present

Bibliographic Details
Authors and Corporations: Honings, Rick (Editor), Beek, Esther op de (Editor)
Title: Animals in Dutch travel writing, 1800-present/ edited by Rick Honings and Esther Op de Beek
Title Note: Frontmatter
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I Colonial Encounters: Framing the Animal
Chapter 1. Roaring Tigers, Grunting Buffalo, and Slithering Snakes Along the Javanese Road: A Comparative Examination of Dutch and Indonesian Travel Writing
Chapter 2. Naming the World: Pieter Bleeker’s Travels and the Challenges of Archipelagic Biodiversity
Chapter 3. Empire as Horseplay? Writing the Java Pony in the Nineteenth Century through the Lenses of Mobility, Modernity, and Race
Chapter 4. The Sound of the Tokkeh and the Tjitjak: The Representation of the Tokay Gekko and Common House Gekko in Dutch-Indies Travel Literature
Chapter 5. Monkeys as Metaphor: Ecologies of Representation in Dutch Travel Writing about Suriname from the Colonial Period
Chapter 6. Becoming a Beast in the Long Run: Travelling Perpetrators and the Animal as Metaphor for Violence
PART II Living Apart Together: Animals in Modern Travel Writing
Chapter 7. ‘Do You Really Think a Donkey Has No Heart?’ Betsy Perk and her Cadette
Chapter 8. Naturalist Lessons from the North: Human and Non-Human Animals in Niko Tinbergen’s Eskimoland (1934) and Jac. P. Thijsse’s Texel (1927)
Chapter 9. The Land of the Living Fossils: Animals in Travelogues for Dutch-Australian Emigrants, 1950-1970
Chapter 10. A Lesson in Happiness: Animals and Nostalgia in the Travel Stories of Leonhard Huizinga
Chapter 11. Noble Horse and Lazy Pig: Frank Westerman and Yvonne Kroonenberg in Quest of Domestic Animals
Notes on the Contributors
Index
Language: English
published:
Notes: In English
Item Description: 1 Online-Ressource (296 p.)
ISBN: 9789400604476
DOI: 10.1515/9789400604476