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    2. Historical Ties Among Suriname, The Netherlands Antilles, Aruba, and The Netherlands

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Allison Blakely (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Summer, 1998
    Published:
    Johns Hopkins University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Callaloo
    Journal Title Details:
    21(3) : 472-478
    Notes:
    History has produced a myriad of cultural overlays in the Caribbean and the adjacent region of South America, a legacy of centuries of intrusion by rival European empires and the consequent sporadic exchange between the European invaders of the various local territories and peoples they claimed to control. The result is a mixture of peoples, languages, religions, and all other aspects of human culture, reflected in enrichment of the respective European and African languages involved, as well as in creation of new hybrid languages. It is in this context that one can speak of "Caribbean" literature and art from Suriname and the Netherlands.