Jeroen Dewulf
Biographic Data
| ID | 710638 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeroen Dewulf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeroen |
| FAMILY NAME | Dewulf |
| SIGNATURE | DEWULF J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4579-3086 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Atlantic Cataclysm
Vida e Morte no Império de Sombras Português
Este artigo introduz um novo conceito metodológico ao estudo da religiosidade negra no espaço atlântico, o do “Império de Sombras Português”. Cunhado pela primeira vez em 1991 pelo historiador George Winius, o conceito alude a comunidades indígenas e/ou mestiças que, seja na periferia ou para além dos limites do aparato administrativo efetivo de Portugal, desenvolveram uma nova identidade cultural-religiosa de acordo com um modelo português, mas …
The captives of the Bruynvisch (1627)
“Wouldn’t It Be Smarter to Let the Malay Colonize Europe?”
The travel books of the Bohemian-German author Richard Katz (1888–1968) were once among the most popular publications in German literature but have since been forgotten. This essay intends to reread, from a postcolonial perspective, Katz’s work from the interwar period. It focuses on his book about the Dutch East Indies, today’s Indonesia, Heitere Tage mit braunen Menschen (1930), in order to explain how and why the early form of postcolonial and…
From the Geste Francor to Lohodann
Little is known about the dissemination of Carolingian literature outside of Europe. This article focuses on an intriguing example from the African island of Annobón, where a new variant of the story of Roland’s birth and youth developed. It analyzes the Annobonese story from a comparative perspective that identifies parallels with other known variants of this tale and highlights the unique characteristics of Lohodann, the African Roland
The Saga of Lohodann
The essay analyzes the saga of Lohodann in relation to the idiosyncratic cultural and religious history of the African Atlantic island of Annobón. It does so by placing the history of the island in the context of the Portuguese expansion in Africa during the early modern era, and studies the folktale in connection to the dissemination of Iberian cultural elements in the region. It pays special attention to the role of confraternities, in the cont…
Hugo und Bruno. Hugo Loetscher und Joseph Breitbachs. Bericht über Bruno (1962). Eine biographische Miszelle
Zooming in on New York’s Dutch History and Its African-Descended Population
Why Rara Burns Judas during Lent
Until the 1980s, Catholic elements in Haitian culture tended to be interpreted exclusively in connection to the forced conversion of the enslaved population under French rule. This changed following John Thornton's groundbreaking research into the development of Christianity in early modern Africa-Kongo in particular-and the awareness that a significant number of enslaved Africans already identified as Christian before their arrival in Saint-Domi…
The Journal of the Galliot Nieuwer Amstel
In February 1660, supercargo Laurens de Sille sailed from New Amsterdam (Manhattan) to Curaçao aboard the galliot Nieuwer Amstel. Tasked with maintaining a record of the cargo, De Sille kept a journal of the four-month journey to Curaçao and back. While keeping a journal was common practice on Dutch ships, few survive from the seventeenth century. De Sille's journal offers a unique insight into mid-seventeenth-century shipping activities at Curaç…
How Brazilian are Quicumbis
My goal in this article is to show how the emphasis on mestiçagem (ethnic/racial/cultural mixture) in the formation of Brazilian popular culture may have obscured our understanding of performance traditions deemed to be “typically Brazilian.” I focus on the quicumbi and begin the article with an analysis of the earliest references to this performance, followed by theories on its origin and meaning. I then contribute to this discussion by adding r…
Rethinking the Historical Development of Caribbean Performance Culture from an Afro-Iberian Perspective
This article advocates for a new perspective on Caribbean performance traditions by adopting an Afro-Iberian perspective. It argues that we are able to acquire a better understanding of the historical development of some of the most enigmatic Caribbean performances, including Jankunu, by taking into consideration that many of those who built the foundations of Afro-Caribbean culture had already adopted cultural and religious elements rooted in Ib…
Flying Back to Africa or Flying to Heaven? Competing Visions of Afterlife in the Lowcountry and Caribbean Slave Societies
This article presents a new interpretation of the famous folktale about enslaved Africans flying home, including the legend that only those who refrained from eating salt could fly back to Africa. It rejects claims that the tale is rooted in Igbo culture and relates to suicide as a desperate attempt to escape from slavery. Rather, an analysis of historical documents in combination with ethnographic and linguistic research makes it possible to tra…
Lotharingia
Simon Winder defines the topic of his book, Lotharingia, as a key element in understanding much of Europe’s wider history. Indeed, if one had to summarize the history of continental Western Europe
Dogs and Their Owners Have Frequent and Intensive Contact
Contact and interactions between owners and their pets may have beneficial physical and social effects on people, but may also facilitate the transmission of zoonotic agents and resistant bacteria. To estimate the risk of these contacts, more information regarding the frequency and intensity of this physical contact is required. Therefore, an online survey was conducted among pet owners resulting in 701 completed questionnaires. Questions regardi…
Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas
This volume demonstrates how, from the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade, enslaved and free Africans in the Americas used Catholicism and Christian-derived celebrations as spaces for autonomous cultural expression, social organization, and political empowerment. Their appropriation of Catholic-based celebrations calls into question the long-held idea that Africans and their descendants in the diaspora either resignedly accepted Christianity o…
Iberian linguistic elements among the black population in New Netherland (1614–1664)
Since the slave population in New Netherland (1614–1664) was small compared to that of other Dutch Atlantic colonies such as Curaçao, Dutch Brazil, and Suriname, it has traditionally received little attention by scholars, including creolists. It is, therefore, not well known that traces of Iberian languages can be found among the black population of seventeenth-century Manhattan. While the paucity of sources does not allow us to make any decisive…
Amsterdam’s Atlantic
Few people in today’s Netherlands are aware of the fact that a large part of Brazil was once a colony of the West India Company. In the first half of the seventeenth century, however, Brazil was on
Rusteloos en overal
From the Calendas to the Calenda
This article presents a new theory on the origin of the calenda (also known as calinda, colinda, corlinda, and caringa) by analyzing the term from an Iberian perspective. It claims that the term should not be understood as a type of dance or song, but as a festive period in the Iberian calendar. It explains the calenda with reference to an Afro-Iberian substratum in Black performance culture in the Americas and highlights the role of brotherhoods
Böse Kräfte im brasilianischen Paradies
It is well known that Stefan Zweig had a passion for Brazil, in particular for Rio de Janeiro. He was much more reserved, however, about Brazil’s largest city, São Paulo. Yet his visit to the Butantan snake institute in São Paulo was not inconsequential. This article shows that the lukewarm Brazilian reception of Zweig’s book Brasilien: Ein Land der Zukunft (1941) may in part be attributed to his failure to write more enthusiastically about Butan…
Donna Merwick
The Postcolonial Low Countries
As the editors Elleke Boehmer and Sarah De Mul of The Postcolonial Low Countries rightly argue, little attention has traditionally been paid to Dutch-speaking areas in global analysis of the cultural legacy of Europe's colonial policies. In this respect, the publication of a new volume that attempts to reach a broad range of scholars interested in the legacy of Dutch and Belgian colonial policies in the contemporary Low Countries and their former…
A STRONG Barbaric Accent
Although it is estimated that as late as the mid-eighteenth century 16–20% of the slaves in New York and New Jersey spoke Dutch, very little research has been done on America's Dutch-speaking black community. Despite the paucity of sources, this article provides an overview of the importance of the Dutch language for the black community from the seventeenth-century colony of New Netherland to nineteenth-century New York and New Jersey. It also ra…
New Man in the Tropics
Casa-grande & Senzala (1933), a obra secular de Gilberto Freyre, foi traditionalmente interpretado de um ponto de vista sociólogo e histórico. Esta interpretação deixou duas questões essenciais em aberto: 1) Como se pode explicar que Freyre interpretou a noção de miscegenação de uma forma (muito) mais positiva do que sociólogos anteriores e 2) Como se pode explicar as tendências elitistas e aristocráticas na sua obra? Este artigo explore estas du…
From the Calendas to the Calenda
This article presents a new theory on the origin of the calenda (also known as calinda, colinda, corlinda, and caringa) by analyzing the term from an Iberian perspective. It claims that the term should not be understood as a type of dance or song, but as a festive period in the Iberian calendar. It explains the calenda with reference to an Afro-Iberian substratum in Black performance culture in the Americas and highlights the role of brotherhoods
Why Rara Burns Judas during Lent
Until the 1980s, Catholic elements in Haitian culture tended to be interpreted exclusively in connection to the forced conversion of the enslaved population under French rule. This changed following John Thornton's groundbreaking research into the development of Christianity in early modern Africa-Kongo in particular-and the awareness that a significant number of enslaved Africans already identified as Christian before their arrival in Saint-Domi…
New Man in the Tropics
Casa-grande & Senzala (1933), a obra secular de Gilberto Freyre, foi traditionalmente interpretado de um ponto de vista sociólogo e histórico. Esta interpretação deixou duas questões essenciais em aberto: 1) Como se pode explicar que Freyre interpretou a noção de miscegenação de uma forma (muito) mais positiva do que sociólogos anteriores e 2) Como se pode explicar as tendências elitistas e aristocráticas na sua obra? Este artigo explore estas du…
Emulating a Portuguese Model
This article presents a new perspective on the master-slave relationship in New Netherland in order to complement the existing theories on the treatment of slaves in that Dutch colony. It shows how prior to the loss of Dutch Brazil, the West India Company modeled its slave policy after Portuguese practices, such as the formation of black militias and the use of Christianity as a means to foster slave loyalty. It also points out that in the initia…
Pinkster
This article argues that Pinkster should be understood as an Atlantic Creole festival in a Dutch-American context, rather than a Dutch-African festival in an American context. It claims that the syncretic character of Pinkster did not originate in North America and that, before arriving on the American East Coast, the essence of what came to be known as Pinkster already existed as a culturally hybrid Luso-African celebration
Nusap
The Numeral Unit Spread Assessment Pedigree (NUSAP) system was implemented to evaluate assumptions in a quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA) model for Salmonella spp. in minced pork meat. This QMRA model allows the testing of mitigation strategies for the reduction of human salmonellosis and aims to serve as a basis for science‐based policy making. The NUSAP method was used to assess the subjective component of assumptions in the QMRA mo…
The Many Languages of American Literature
Building on the suggestion by the editors of the Routledge Companion to World Literature (2011) to re-frame the field of literary studies from a global and transnational perspective, this article suggests a new approach to the concept of 'contact literature'. Reading American literature as 'contact literature' assumes that even if an American literary text is written in English, the other languages of the 'contact zone' in which the text originat…
Hugo Loetscher und die "portugiesischsprachige Welt"
Verbrasilianern”
Nusap
The Numeral Unit Spread Assessment Pedigree (NUSAP) system was implemented to evaluate assumptions in a quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA) model for Salmonella spp. in minced pork meat. This QMRA model allows the testing of mitigation strategies for the reduction of human salmonellosis and aims to serve as a basis for science‐based policy making. The NUSAP method was used to assess the subjective component of assumptions in the QMRA mo…
The Many Meanings of Freedom
Framing a Deterritorialized, Hybrid Alternative to Nationalist Essentialism in the Postcolonial Era
In her study of Transnational South Asians (2008), Susan Koshy highlights the systematic neglect by scholars of the perspectives and activities of such seemingly peripheral actors as diasporic subjects in the macro-narratives of nationalism and globalization. Such neglect was even more pronounced in the case of the “repatriates” from European colonies in Asia and Africa. The epistemological implications of the dislocated, de-territorialized disco…
Vom Diskurs in der Enge zum Diskurs in die Weite
Ziel dieses Aufsatzes ist eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit der viel beachteten These Pia Reinachers in Je Suisse (2003), dass sich die jüngste Generation Deutschschweizer Autoren durch einen Mangel an Interesse für die eigene Nation von der älteren Generation unterscheidet. Gezeigt wird, dass diese These der Komplexität der neueren Literatur der deutschsprachigen Schweiz nicht gerecht wird. Mit Rücksicht auf den Band Diskurse in die Weite (2…
The Absence of Zoonotic Agents in Invasive Bullfrogs (Lithobates catesbeianus) in Belgium and The Netherlands
Mirroring Zambo in an Atlantic context
This article analyzes Gottfried Keller's story Don Correa from the classic German novella-cycle Das Sinngedicht (The Epigram, 1881) in an Atlantic context. Using Walter Benjamin's concept of “mirroring” as a theoretical framework, the article “mirrors” Don Correa's Angolan slave Zambo in three different cultural and political settings: “Where Africa Mirrors Latin America” focuses on the prominent role of the Jesuits in Don Correa and connects the…
Pinkster
This article argues that Pinkster should be understood as an Atlantic Creole festival in a Dutch-American context, rather than a Dutch-African festival in an American context. It claims that the syncretic character of Pinkster did not originate in North America and that, before arriving on the American East Coast, the essence of what came to be known as Pinkster already existed as a culturally hybrid Luso-African celebration
New Man in the Tropics
Casa-grande & Senzala (1933), a obra secular de Gilberto Freyre, foi traditionalmente interpretado de um ponto de vista sociólogo e histórico. Esta interpretação deixou duas questões essenciais em aberto: 1) Como se pode explicar que Freyre interpretou a noção de miscegenação de uma forma (muito) mais positiva do que sociólogos anteriores e 2) Como se pode explicar as tendências elitistas e aristocráticas na sua obra? Este artigo explore estas du…
Emulating a Portuguese Model
This article presents a new perspective on the master-slave relationship in New Netherland in order to complement the existing theories on the treatment of slaves in that Dutch colony. It shows how prior to the loss of Dutch Brazil, the West India Company modeled its slave policy after Portuguese practices, such as the formation of black militias and the use of Christianity as a means to foster slave loyalty. It also points out that in the initia…
The Many Languages of American Literature
Building on the suggestion by the editors of the Routledge Companion to World Literature (2011) to re-frame the field of literary studies from a global and transnational perspective, this article suggests a new approach to the concept of 'contact literature'. Reading American literature as 'contact literature' assumes that even if an American literary text is written in English, the other languages of the 'contact zone' in which the text originat…
The Postcolonial Low Countries
As the editors Elleke Boehmer and Sarah De Mul of The Postcolonial Low Countries rightly argue, little attention has traditionally been paid to Dutch-speaking areas in global analysis of the cultural legacy of Europe's colonial policies. In this respect, the publication of a new volume that attempts to reach a broad range of scholars interested in the legacy of Dutch and Belgian colonial policies in the contemporary Low Countries and their former…
A STRONG Barbaric Accent
Although it is estimated that as late as the mid-eighteenth century 16–20% of the slaves in New York and New Jersey spoke Dutch, very little research has been done on America's Dutch-speaking black community. Despite the paucity of sources, this article provides an overview of the importance of the Dutch language for the black community from the seventeenth-century colony of New Netherland to nineteenth-century New York and New Jersey. It also ra…
Donna Merwick
Böse Kräfte im brasilianischen Paradies
It is well known that Stefan Zweig had a passion for Brazil, in particular for Rio de Janeiro. He was much more reserved, however, about Brazil’s largest city, São Paulo. Yet his visit to the Butantan snake institute in São Paulo was not inconsequential. This article shows that the lukewarm Brazilian reception of Zweig’s book Brasilien: Ein Land der Zukunft (1941) may in part be attributed to his failure to write more enthusiastically about Butan…
Amsterdam’s Atlantic
Few people in today’s Netherlands are aware of the fact that a large part of Brazil was once a colony of the West India Company. In the first half of the seventeenth century, however, Brazil was on
Rusteloos en overal
From the Calendas to the Calenda
This article presents a new theory on the origin of the calenda (also known as calinda, colinda, corlinda, and caringa) by analyzing the term from an Iberian perspective. It claims that the term should not be understood as a type of dance or song, but as a festive period in the Iberian calendar. It explains the calenda with reference to an Afro-Iberian substratum in Black performance culture in the Americas and highlights the role of brotherhoods
Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas
This volume demonstrates how, from the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade, enslaved and free Africans in the Americas used Catholicism and Christian-derived celebrations as spaces for autonomous cultural expression, social organization, and political empowerment. Their appropriation of Catholic-based celebrations calls into question the long-held idea that Africans and their descendants in the diaspora either resignedly accepted Christianity o…
Iberian linguistic elements among the black population in New Netherland (1614–1664)
Since the slave population in New Netherland (1614–1664) was small compared to that of other Dutch Atlantic colonies such as Curaçao, Dutch Brazil, and Suriname, it has traditionally received little attention by scholars, including creolists. It is, therefore, not well known that traces of Iberian languages can be found among the black population of seventeenth-century Manhattan. While the paucity of sources does not allow us to make any decisive…
Lotharingia
Simon Winder defines the topic of his book, Lotharingia, as a key element in understanding much of Europe’s wider history. Indeed, if one had to summarize the history of continental Western Europe
Dogs and Their Owners Have Frequent and Intensive Contact
Contact and interactions between owners and their pets may have beneficial physical and social effects on people, but may also facilitate the transmission of zoonotic agents and resistant bacteria. To estimate the risk of these contacts, more information regarding the frequency and intensity of this physical contact is required. Therefore, an online survey was conducted among pet owners resulting in 701 completed questionnaires. Questions regardi…
How Brazilian are Quicumbis
My goal in this article is to show how the emphasis on mestiçagem (ethnic/racial/cultural mixture) in the formation of Brazilian popular culture may have obscured our understanding of performance traditions deemed to be “typically Brazilian.” I focus on the quicumbi and begin the article with an analysis of the earliest references to this performance, followed by theories on its origin and meaning. I then contribute to this discussion by adding r…
Rethinking the Historical Development of Caribbean Performance Culture from an Afro-Iberian Perspective
This article advocates for a new perspective on Caribbean performance traditions by adopting an Afro-Iberian perspective. It argues that we are able to acquire a better understanding of the historical development of some of the most enigmatic Caribbean performances, including Jankunu, by taking into consideration that many of those who built the foundations of Afro-Caribbean culture had already adopted cultural and religious elements rooted in Ib…
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