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For the sake of love - Surinamese and Aruban female writers in the Netherlands

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Giselle Ecury, Karin Amatmoekrim en Celestine Raalte  - foto Serge Ligtenb
Giselle Ecury, Karin Amatmoekrim en Celestine Raalte  - foto Serge Ligtenb


Family ties, migration as an exploratory expedition, and the quest for love. These are the themes in the work of three Caribbean writers in the Netherlands. They write about the search for a new existence overseas. In the Sranantongo poems of the Utrecht-based Celestine Raalte the strong family ties between Creole women play an important part. The Aruban-Dutch Giselle Ecury, wroter of the novel Erfdeel (Inheritance) and the Surinamese-Javanese author Karin Amatmoekrim (Wanneer wij samen zijn; When We are Together) write about migration as an expedition to a new place of their own. Dutch spoken.