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FOUNDING FICTIONS OF THE DUTCH CARIBBEAN - OLGA...

Carel de Haseth's novella Slave and Master (Katibu di Shon)  written in the Creole language
Papiamentu  dramatizes the August 17  1795 slave revolt on the Dutch Caribbean island of
Curaçao. The story is told through an alternating series of dramatic monologues by two key
characters: Luis  a slave  and a leader of the revolt  and Shon Welmu  his childhood friend and
white heir to the slave plantation. The exposition begins shortly after the revolt has been
crushed  as Luis awaits his brutal execution  and it ends with his preemptive suicide. The
theme is the acceptance of the inevitablity of emancipation. Founding Fictions of the Dutch
Caribbean: Carel de Haseth's Slave and Master (Katibu di Shon) is suitable for courses on
Caribbean literature and postcolonial literature  and will be of great interest to readers of
fiction in general.

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