While the socio-economic and historical aspects of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) have been extensively documented and researched, the role of the VOC in visual culture and the arts has been relatively neglected. This authoritative volume addresses various aspects of cultural exchange between the Low Countries and Asia. Increased prosperity and the flood of imported goods from Asia had a huge influence on seventeenth-century Holland. To cite some examples: when the VOC spread its merchandise throughout the various regions of Asia, Chinese decorative motives became popular in Indonesia. After the lifting of the seventeenth-century ban on the import of Christian books to Japan, a wave of interest in Dutch culture hit the country, giving rise to Hollandmania, imitation of anything Dutch.
Mediating Netherlandish Art and Material Culture in Asia offers new insights into the world routes travelled by seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture, as well as the rise of Asian influence in the imagery of the Dutch Golden Age.
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- Rewriting myth and history / Elizabeth Ordoñez
- Historical novel from a feminine perspective: Urraca / Birute Ciplijauskaite
- Personal and public history in Laforet's long novels / Roberta Johnson
- Portraits of the femme seule by Laforet, Matute, Soriano, Martín Gaite, Galavarriato, Quiroga, and Medio / Janet Perez
- Self-discovery in Quiroga's Presente profundo / Carolyn Galerstein
- The challenge of Martín Gaite's woman hero / Joan Lipman Brown
- The feminist message: propaganda and/ or art? A study of two novels by Rosa Montero / Eunice Myers
- The dilemma of the modern woman: Woman: A Study of the Female Characters in Rosa Montero's Novels / Roberto Manteiga
- A feminist literary renaissance in Catalonia / Kathleen McNerney
- The renewal of the quest in Esther Tusquet's El mismo mar de todos los veranos / Lucy Lee-Bonnano
- Montserrat Roig: a feminine perspective and a journalistic slant / Catherine G. Bellver
- Bibliography
- List of contributors
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