Dutch Caribbean Poetics in a Historical Perspective

This article provides an overview of two hundred years of Dutch Caribbean poetics: from Eurocentrism to originality, from imitation towards creation.

In the 19^th century colonial poets of the ABC islands followed European examples, in the beginning of the 20^th century they searched for local themes and forms, and from the last decades of the 20^th and in the beginning of the 21st centuries they combined the local and the global arriving at a creative amalgam of the glocal.