by Jolanda Vanderwal Taylor
Amsterdam University Press, 1997
Paper: 978-90-5356-236-9 | eISBN: 978-90-485-1253-9 | Cloth: 978-90-5356-221-5
Library of Congress Classification PT5180.V35 1997
Dewey Decimal Classification 839.3136409358

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Many of today's Dutch writers were children during World War II. Even today, the traumatic childhood experience of enemy occupation is still central to the work of many of them. This interest cuts across the traditional boundaries between fiction, autobiography and the literature of trauma and recovery. A Family Occupation is the first English-language introduction to Dutch-language texts written by and about the 'Children of the War' and their cultural context. Their themes and literary conventions throw an interesting light on the Dutch approach to issues such as guilt and innocence, memory and narrative, national identity, child abuse and victimhood.