‘A way of seeing and telling’: Resistance through language and form in the work of the Dutch authors Hafid Bouazza and Ramsey Nasr

Abstract

This article discusses the debate within the Dutch academy on the differentiation between migration and postcolonial writing as a symptom of an area of study in search of consensus. It offers a synthetic reading of the writing of two leading Dutch authors: Hafid Bouazza and Ramsey Nasr based on the assumption that both writers, through their widely different aesthetic and political negotiations, shape the discourse on multicultural literature and society in the Netherlands.