Animals in Dutch Travel Writing, 1800-present

Apart From Humans, Animals Play A Pivotal Role In Travel Literature. However, The Way They Are Represented In Texts Can Vary From Living Companions To Metaphorical Entities. Existing Studies Mainly Focus On The Representation Of Conventional Or Unconventional Roles That Are Assigned To Animals From Around The Napoleonic Age Until Now, Roles That Have Been Subject To Change And That Tell Us A Lot About Human Reflections On Encounters With Non-human Creatures And The Position Of Man In This Rapidly Changing World. In This Edited Volume, Scholars From The Netherlands And Abroad Analyse The Roles That Animals Play In Dutch Travel Literature From 1800 To The Present. In This Way, We Aim To Provide New Insights Into The Relationships Between Man And Animals, In Textual Expressions And Real Life, And To Add The 'dutch Case' To The Flourishing International Field Of Travel Writing Studies. 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 Rick Honings, Esther Op De Beek.