Dr. I. (Isabel) Hoving
- Lecturer
- Literary Studies
| Telephone number: | +31 (0)71 527 2250 |
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| E-Mail: | i.hoving@hum.leidenuniv.nl |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Institute for Cultural Disciplines, Literatuurwetenschap |
| Office Address: |
Witte Singel-complex van Wijkplaats 2 2311 BX Leiden Room number 1.02b |
Research
If my research concerns interculturality, globalization, gender, sexuality, and nature, it is because I am interested in all manifestations of cultural diversity. I obtained my PhD at Amsterdam University in 1995 with a dissertation on the multi-voiced literatures Caribbean migrant women (cum laude; supervisor Mieke Bal). My work aims at relating critically to postcolonial literary theory and the theories of migration and globalization, by confronting and mixing these theories with other theories, and testing them in new contexts. For example, I am translating postcolonial (and related critical) insights to the Dutch situation (see e.g. my publications on Surinamese literature (2004), the influence of migration on Dutch everyday culture (2005), and (forthcoming) Dutch racism). My most recent work inquires into the baffling intersections of postcolonial theory, ecocriticism, and queer theory. I became interested in ecocriticism (which researches the literary imagination of nature), when my research in issues of postcoloniality and interculturality showed me that, at the heart of the intertwined discourses of race and sexuality, we find strong convictions of what would be natural, and what unnatural. A final topic that fascinates me is cross-over literature; as a writer (of cross-over philosophical fantasy), I like to ponder the tensions between the theory and the practice of literature.
Curriculum Vitae
I began my working life as a secondary school teacher (1978). After working at the Universities of Amsterdam and Antwerp, I had the fortune to join the Department of Literary Studies in Leiden, where I am now in particular responsible for courses in interculturality, and gender and sexuality. Having been a teacher for more than thirty years, I still love teaching, particularly when it concerns literature: I love story-telling so much that I cannot help but publish novels myself (2002, 2009, 2010). I am also a member of the editorial team of Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, sex and race, and Ecozon@, Journal for European Literature, Culture and Environment.
Publications
Between Relation and the Bare Facts: the Migratory Imagination and Relationality. In Durrant, S. & Lord, C.M. (Eds.) Essays in Migratory Aesthetics: Cultural Practices Between Migration and Art-making (pp. 179-190). Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007.
Moving the Caribbean Landscape: Cereus Blooms At Night as a Re-imagination of the Caribbean Environment. In: DeLoughrey, E.M., Gosson, R.K., Handley, G.M. (Eds.), Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture (New World Studies), pp. 154-168. Charlottesville/London: University of Virginia Press, 2005.
Hoving, I. & Dibbits, H. & Schrover, Marlou (Eds.) (2005) . Den Haag: Sdu Uitgevers, 2005.
Niets dan het heden: over Jamaica Kincaid, de postkoloniale literatuurstudie, en wat er van ons terecht moet komen. In Kempen, M., van, Verkruijsse, P., Zuiderweg, A. (Eds.) Wandelaar onder de palmen (pp. 15-27). Leiden: KITLV Uitgeverij, 2004.
Oude pijn en nieuwe moed: familie, politiek en geweld door de ogen van een nieuwe generatie Surinaamse schrijfsters. OSO Tijdschrift voor Surinaamse Taalkunde, Letterkunde, Cultuur en Geschiedenis, 23 (2004) 1, pp. 98-109.
With Kathleen Gyssels andMaggie Bowers, ed. Convergences and Interferences: Newness in Intercultural Practices. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001
In Praise of New Travellers. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2001.
2011
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Hoving, I. (2011)
Michelle Cliff: the Unheard Music. In: Donnell, A. & Bucknor, M. (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature., pp. 27-33. New York, London: Routledge.
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Hoving, I. (2011)
Opacity and Openness: Creating New Senses of Dutchness. In: Bal, M. & Hernández-Navarro, M.A. (Eds.), Art and Visibility in Migratory Culture (Thamyris Intersecting), pp. 297-312. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
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Hoving, I. (2011)
“Reading: On Slowness, Trees, and the Desire Not to Read.”. In: Aydemir, M (Ed.), Eighty-Eight: Mieke Bal PhDs 1983-2011, pp. 59-63. Amsterdam: ASCA Press.
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2010
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Hoving, I. (2010)
Het Boek van het Vuur 2: De vulkaan van Wageningen. Amsterdam: Querido.
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Hoving, I. (2010)
Het boek van het vuur 1: Het verbond van de Bliksems. Amsterdam: Querido.
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Hoving, I. (2010)
On the Absence of Nature: Writing on Nature and Ecocriticism in the Netherlands. Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment, 1 (1), pp. 167-73.
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Hoving, I. (2010)
The Postcolonial Turn in Dutch Literary Criticism. [Bespreking van: New Germans, New Dutch: Literary Interventions].
(Book review)
2007
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Hoving, I. (2007)
Between Relation and the Bare Facts: the Migratory Imagination and Relationality. In Durrant, S. & Lord, C.M. (Eds.) Essays in Migratory Aesthteics: Cultural Practices Between Migration and Art-making (pp. 179-190). Amsterdam: Rodopi.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
2006
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Hoving, I. (2006)
Giving Life: Inge Boer's Postcolonial Theory. In: Boer, I.E., Bal, M., Eekelen, B., van, Spyer, P. (Eds.), Uncertain Territories: Boundaries in Culutral Analysis (ENUS: Gender in Modern Culture), 7. , pp. 279-290. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
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Hoving, I. (2006)
In Praise of Imperfect ranslations: Reading, Translating, and the Love of the Incomprehensible. In Pinsent, Pat (Ed.) No Child is an Island: the Case for Children's Literature in Translation (pp. 37-44). Shenstone: Pied Piper Publishing.
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Hoving, I. (2006)
On Invasions, Weeds and Wilderness: the Dutch Imagination of Globalisation (thrice). In Joseph, C.A.B. (Ed.) Global Fissures: Postcolonial Futures (pp. 153-171). Amsterdam: Rodopi.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
2005
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Hoving, I. (2005)
Circumventing Openness: Creating New Sense of Dutchness. Transit, 1 (1), pp. 1-11.
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Hoving, I. (2005)
Inleiding: veranderingen van het alledaagse. In: Hoving, I., Dibbits, H., Schrover, M. (Eds.), Veranderingen van het alledaagse (Cultuur en migratie), 5. , pp. 1-24. Den Haag: Sdu Uitgevers.
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Hoving, I. (2005)
Moving the Caribbean Landscape: Cereus Blooms At Night as a Re-imagination of the Caribbean Environment. In: DeLoughrey, E.M., Gosson, R.K., Handley, G.M. (Eds.), Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture (New World Studies), pp. 154-168. Charlottesville/London: University of Virginia Press.
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Best, S. & Blokker, N. & Hoving, I. & Pennings, L. (2005)
Sexy: internetisch flirten van 1960 tot nu: de coaches en de concurrenten. In: Hoving, I., Dibbits, H., Schrover, M. (Eds.), Veranderingen van het alledaagse (Cultuur en migratie), 5. , pp. 165-196. Den Haag: Sdu Uitgevers.
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Hoving, I. & Dibbits, H. & Schrover, Marlou (Eds.) (2005)
Veranderingen van het alledaagse. Den Haag: Sdu Uitgevers.
(Book editorial)
2004
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Alphen, E.J., van & Hoving, I. & Korsten, F.W.A. (Eds.) (2004)
Africa and Its Significant Others: Forty Years of Intercultural Entanglement. New York: Rodopi.
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Hoving, I. (2004)
Gardening in the Jungles of Post-Coloniality: Representing Multiculturality and Hybridity. In Ledent, B. (Ed.) Bridges Across Chasms: Toward a Transcultural Future in Caribbean Literature (pp. 211-219). Luik: L3 Liege Language and Literature.
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Hoving, I. (2004)
Nat hout: Astrid Roemers postkoloniale verbeelding. , Kunsten in Beweging (Cultuur en Migratie), 2. , pp. 323-341. Den Haag: SDU uitgevers.
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Hoving, I. (2004)
Niets dan het heden: over Jamaica Kincaid, de postkoloniale literatuurstudie, en wat er van ons terecht moet komen. In Kempen, M., van, Verkruijsse, P., Zuiderweg, A. (Eds.) Wandelaar onder de palmen (pp. 15-27). Leiden: KITLV Uitgeverij.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings) -
Hoving, I. (2004)
Oude pijn en nieuwe moed: familie, politiek en geweld door de ogen van een nieuwe generatie Surinaamse schrijfsters. OSO: Tijdschrift voor Surinamistiek en het Caraïbisch Gebied, 23 (1), pp. 98-109.
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2003
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Hoving, I. (2003)
Corruptions, mutations, life: the vegetable imagination of Dutch postcoloniality. , Nature and Nation: Vaster than Empires, pp. 129-138. London: London Institute.
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2002
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Hoving, I. (2002)
De gevleugelde kat. Amsterdam: Querido Uitgevers.
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Hoving, I. (2002)
Remaining Where You Are: Kincaid and Glissant on Space and Knowledge. , Mobilizing Place, Placing Mobility: The Politics of Representation in a Globalized World (Thamyris/Intersecting), 9. , pp. 125-140. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
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Hoving, I. (2002)
Review. [Bespreking van: A History of Caribbean Literature. Vol 2]. In: Arcadia: Internationale Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft, 37, pp. 413-416.
(Book review)
2001
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Gyssels, K. & Hoving, I. & Bowers, M.A. (2001)
Convergences and Interferences: Newness in Intercultural Practices. (Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race, 8). Amsterdam: Rodopi.
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Hoving, I. & Mesters, G. (2001)
Een vrouw die danst in de regen. Strategieën van zwarte, migranten- en vluchtelingenvrouwen in literatuur, theater en film. In: Botman, M., Jouwe, N., Wekker, G. (Eds.), Caleidoscopische Visies, pp. 117-151. Amsterdam: KIT Uitgeverij.
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Hoving, I. (2001)
Hybridity: A Slippery Trail. In Goggin, J., dr & Neef, S., dr (Eds.) Travelling Concepts I: Text, Subjectivity, Hybridity (pp. 185-2001). Amsterdam: ASCA Press.
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Hoving, I. (2001)
In Praise of New Travelers. (Cultural Memory in the Present). Stanford CA: Stanford University Press.
(Book (monograph))
2000
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Hoving, I. (2000)
The Castration of Livingstone and Other Stories: Reading African and Caribbean Migrant Women's Writing. Amsterdam Mineke Schipper.
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Hoving, I. (2000)
Buchi Emecheta. Openbaar, 30, pp. 320-324.
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Hoving, I. (2000)
Review Heike Paul. [Bespreking van: Mapping Migration: Women's Writing and the American Immigrant Experience from the 1950s tot the 1990s]. In: European Journal of Women's Studies
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Hoving, I. & Hekma, G. (2000)
T.R. - Thamyris. Thamyris: mythmaking from past to present, 1/2
(Contribution for newspaper or weekly magazine)
1999
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Hoving, I. & Wekker, G. (1999)
Lof der diversiteit. In: Bosch, M. (Ed.), In het hart van de wetenschap: naar Total E-quality en diversiteit in de universiteit, pp. 111-141. Den Haag: SDU.
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Hoving, I. (1999)
Smelly Texts for a Conditional Future. In: NN, NN (Ed.), ASCA Yearbook: Come to Your Senses, pp. 61-78. Amsterdam
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Hoving, I. & Humbeeck, K. (1999)
T.R. - ALW-cahier. ALW-cahier, 21
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Hoving, I. (1999)
Three Local Cases in Cross-Atlantic Reading: Discourses on Space and Identity. In: Bal, M. (Ed.), The Practice of Cultural Analysis: Exposing Interdisciplinary Interpretation Between Vision and Reflection, pp. 203-218. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
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1998
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Hoving, I. (1998)
De eigenzinnigheid van de stem: oraliteit en postkoloniale theorievorming. ALW-cahier, 20, pp. 81-93.
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Hoving, I. (1998)
Een leeg graf, een boze man, en een spraakmakende foto: brokstukken van een Nederlandstalige reflectie over interculturaliteit. In: Kempen, M., van & Leijnse, E. (Eds.), Tussenfiguren, pp. 47-61. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
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1996
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Hoving, I. (1996)
Het plezier van de koprol: kanttekeningen bij een interculturele wetenschapspraktijk. In: Braidotti, R. & Wekker, G. (Eds.), Praten in het donker, pp. 100-118. Kampen: Kok Agora.
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Hoving, I. (1996)
Risico's van smetvrees: Nederland, de Cariben en het postkolonialisme. Armada : Tijdschrift voor Wereldliteratuur, 2, pp. 76-80.
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1995
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Hoving, I. (1995)
Andere kleuren, andere ritmes. Surplus, 5, p. 22.
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Hoving, I. (1995)
Het verzet van Caraïbische schrijfsters. Atheneum Illustre, 1, pp. 19-21.
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Hoving, I. (1995)
Literatuur geeft mensen een eigen identiteit. Atheneum Illustre, 1, pp. 47-48.
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Hoving, I. (1995)
Love in the Third World: Two Caribbean Women Writers on Myths about the Relation between Sexuality and Race. Thamyris: mythmaking from past to present, 2, pp. 151-175.
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