Author: BOSCHMA, H. Title: Blank en Bruin. 2e druk. (2nd. edn.).
Description: 's-Gravenhage, Daamen, s.d.[..], 1912. Original richly decorated pictorial cloth, title in gilt on upper cover, decor.endpapers.[5], 213pp., plates, text-ills. & endpieces [by A. Rünckel], short glossary. [Bibliotheek voor Hoofd en Hart]. BUUR, I.J., 0198.(lists 3 edns.). Juvenile on the racial differences between a dutch schoolboy ('the belanda') the nephew of the main character Leo a javanese boy) (son to a Javanese woman and a dutch missionary), staying in The Netherlands for further education, heavily discriminated at school and in daily life. Incl. a chapter referring to the Lombock-expedition (1894). The rare first edn.Near MINT copy (spine sunned).
Keywords: juvenile novel racism colonialism indonesia southeastasia buur
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