Sarah De Mul
Biographic Data
| ID | 934728 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah De Mul |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | De Mul |
| SIGNATURE | DE MUL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Open University of the Netherlands |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3097-7168 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Burn-outcultuur, diversiteit en inclusie: Aangepaste en geredigeerde versie van de inaugurele rede ter acceptatie van de leerstoel Cultuur, Literatuur en Diversiteit aan de Open Universiteit op vrijda…
The term ‘burnout pandemic’ has increasingly been deployed in mainstream media and the public debate. If we read the newspapers, it seems that we are collectively tired. We all yearn for the pause button, and together desire our lives to be more peaceful and quiet. To what extent could burnout indeed be seen, not as a matter of individual mental vulnerability, but rather as an exhausted cultural condition we share? To what extent does an intersec…
Beyond burnout culture? Artistic imaginations of care (crisis) in Barbara Raes' Zon dag kind and Els Dietvorst's Field Guide
Recent studies of contemporary burnout culture, as I will argue, have much to gain from recent feminist critical theorisations and artistic imaginations of care (crisis). The suggestion is indeed to re-think burnout culture in relation to capitalism’s care crisis in order to bring into view the valuable perspectives offered by feminist theorizations and artistic imaginations, which have thus far been largely side-lined, or not properly been consi…
The Role of Subnational Identity in Belgian (Post-) Colonialism
The Congo as topos of dystopic transgression in fin-de-siècle literature
In this essay, I compare the representation of the Congo as a topos of dystopic transgression in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1902), and in a lesser-known novel entitled Tropenwee (Tropical agony) by the Dutch author Henri van Booven, published in 1904. The idea of the Congo as a locus of degeneration will be read, not so much as a Conradian theme, but rather, as an idea that had gained wide currency throughout Europe during the fin-de-siècle peri…
Becoming black in Belgium: The social construction of blackness in Chika Unigwe’s authorial self-representation and On Black Sisters’ Street
In the satirical column entitled “Zwart worden in zeven lessen” ( Becoming Black in Seven Lessons), the Nigerian-Belgian writer Chika Unigwe considers black identity as a social construction and coming to Europe as an entry to a social imaginary, a discursive space where subjects are already imagined, constructed and treated as “black” by hegemonic discourses. Using Becoming Black in Seven Lessons as a starting point, in this essay I explore the …
Towards a Neerlandophone Postcolonial Studies
Addressing the central question of the round table of DiGeSt, we would like to focus on the challenges that gender and diversity entail for the study of literatures in Dutch.Our contribution is based on the programmatic introduction to The Postcolonial Low Countries (Boehmer & De Mul, 2012), in which we put under pressure the definitive concepts of postcolonial studies in its more conventional anglophone or francophone formation, as well as perce…
Colonial Memory: Contemporary Women’s Travel Writing in Britain and The Netherlands
Colonial Memory: Contemporary Women's Travel Writing in Britain and the Netherlands
Nostalgia for empire: ‘Tempo doeloe’ in contemporary Dutch literature
This article focuses on ‘tempo doeloe’, a mode of nostalgia to the Dutch East Indies (colonial Indonesia) in contemporary Dutch literature. The phrase ‘tempo doeloe’ denotes ‘the good old days’ in Pasar Malay, the colloquial colonial language that was used in the Dutch East Indies. The article examines some of the historically contingent dimensions, mnemonic features and ideological complexities of tempo doeloe. Particular attention is devoted, f…
Commitment and Complicity in Cultural Theory and Practice
An international line-up of scholars examines the role of the intellectual in the twenty-first century, looking at the gap between contemporary cultural theory and cultural practice, and asking whethe
Doris Lessing, Feminism and the Representation of Zimbabwe
This article examines the complex intertwinements of feminism, anti-colonial Marxism and imperialism in the work of the recent Literature Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing, particularly in her writings on colonial Africa and the travelogue African Laughter. The article outlines the implications of these intersections for the representation of Zimbabwe against some political, aesthetic and epistemological developments in Lessing's oeuvre. Through a…
Nostalgia for empire: ‘Tempo doeloe’ in contemporary Dutch literature
This article focuses on ‘tempo doeloe’, a mode of nostalgia to the Dutch East Indies (colonial Indonesia) in contemporary Dutch literature. The phrase ‘tempo doeloe’ denotes ‘the good old days’ in Pasar Malay, the colloquial colonial language that was used in the Dutch East Indies. The article examines some of the historically contingent dimensions, mnemonic features and ideological complexities of tempo doeloe. Particular attention is devoted, f…
Becoming black in Belgium: The social construction of blackness in Chika Unigwe’s authorial self-representation and On Black Sisters’ Street
In the satirical column entitled “Zwart worden in zeven lessen” ( Becoming Black in Seven Lessons), the Nigerian-Belgian writer Chika Unigwe considers black identity as a social construction and coming to Europe as an entry to a social imaginary, a discursive space where subjects are already imagined, constructed and treated as “black” by hegemonic discourses. Using Becoming Black in Seven Lessons as a starting point, in this essay I explore the …
Towards a Neerlandophone Postcolonial Studies
Addressing the central question of the round table of DiGeSt, we would like to focus on the challenges that gender and diversity entail for the study of literatures in Dutch.Our contribution is based on the programmatic introduction to The Postcolonial Low Countries (Boehmer & De Mul, 2012), in which we put under pressure the definitive concepts of postcolonial studies in its more conventional anglophone or francophone formation, as well as perce…
Colonial Memory: Contemporary Women's Travel Writing in Britain and the Netherlands
Doris Lessing, Feminism and the Representation of Zimbabwe
This article examines the complex intertwinements of feminism, anti-colonial Marxism and imperialism in the work of the recent Literature Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing, particularly in her writings on colonial Africa and the travelogue African Laughter. The article outlines the implications of these intersections for the representation of Zimbabwe against some political, aesthetic and epistemological developments in Lessing's oeuvre. Through a…
Doris Lessing, Feminism and the Representation of Zimbabwe
This article examines the complex intertwinements of feminism, anti-colonial Marxism and imperialism in the work of the recent Literature Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing, particularly in her writings on colonial Africa and the travelogue African Laughter. The article outlines the implications of these intersections for the representation of Zimbabwe against some political, aesthetic and epistemological developments in Lessing's oeuvre. Through a…
Commitment and Complicity in Cultural Theory and Practice
An international line-up of scholars examines the role of the intellectual in the twenty-first century, looking at the gap between contemporary cultural theory and cultural practice, and asking whethe
Nostalgia for empire: ‘Tempo doeloe’ in contemporary Dutch literature
This article focuses on ‘tempo doeloe’, a mode of nostalgia to the Dutch East Indies (colonial Indonesia) in contemporary Dutch literature. The phrase ‘tempo doeloe’ denotes ‘the good old days’ in Pasar Malay, the colloquial colonial language that was used in the Dutch East Indies. The article examines some of the historically contingent dimensions, mnemonic features and ideological complexities of tempo doeloe. Particular attention is devoted, f…
Colonial Memory: Contemporary Women’s Travel Writing in Britain and The Netherlands
Colonial Memory: Contemporary Women's Travel Writing in Britain and the Netherlands
Becoming black in Belgium: The social construction of blackness in Chika Unigwe’s authorial self-representation and On Black Sisters’ Street
In the satirical column entitled “Zwart worden in zeven lessen” ( Becoming Black in Seven Lessons), the Nigerian-Belgian writer Chika Unigwe considers black identity as a social construction and coming to Europe as an entry to a social imaginary, a discursive space where subjects are already imagined, constructed and treated as “black” by hegemonic discourses. Using Becoming Black in Seven Lessons as a starting point, in this essay I explore the …
Towards a Neerlandophone Postcolonial Studies
Addressing the central question of the round table of DiGeSt, we would like to focus on the challenges that gender and diversity entail for the study of literatures in Dutch.Our contribution is based on the programmatic introduction to The Postcolonial Low Countries (Boehmer & De Mul, 2012), in which we put under pressure the definitive concepts of postcolonial studies in its more conventional anglophone or francophone formation, as well as perce…
The Congo as topos of dystopic transgression in fin-de-siècle literature
In this essay, I compare the representation of the Congo as a topos of dystopic transgression in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1902), and in a lesser-known novel entitled Tropenwee (Tropical agony) by the Dutch author Henri van Booven, published in 1904. The idea of the Congo as a locus of degeneration will be read, not so much as a Conradian theme, but rather, as an idea that had gained wide currency throughout Europe during the fin-de-siècle peri…
The Role of Subnational Identity in Belgian (Post-) Colonialism
Beyond burnout culture? Artistic imaginations of care (crisis) in Barbara Raes' Zon dag kind and Els Dietvorst's Field Guide
Recent studies of contemporary burnout culture, as I will argue, have much to gain from recent feminist critical theorisations and artistic imaginations of care (crisis). The suggestion is indeed to re-think burnout culture in relation to capitalism’s care crisis in order to bring into view the valuable perspectives offered by feminist theorizations and artistic imaginations, which have thus far been largely side-lined, or not properly been consi…
Burn-outcultuur, diversiteit en inclusie: Aangepaste en geredigeerde versie van de inaugurele rede ter acceptatie van de leerstoel Cultuur, Literatuur en Diversiteit aan de Open Universiteit op vrijda…
The term ‘burnout pandemic’ has increasingly been deployed in mainstream media and the public debate. If we read the newspapers, it seems that we are collectively tired. We all yearn for the pause button, and together desire our lives to be more peaceful and quiet. To what extent could burnout indeed be seen, not as a matter of individual mental vulnerability, but rather as an exhausted cultural condition we share? To what extent does an intersec…
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