The Colour of My Island

On the islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao an authentic Creole is spoken: Papiamentu. Ever since the days of the abolition of slavery in 1863 texts in this language have been published. Amongst these texts are stories and tales, poems, occasional verse, essays, novels, pamphlets, songs and dialogues for staging, that with an enthusiastic reception were or have been labelled as literature. The Colour of My Island is a birds-eye view to acquaint yourself with those texts that are ever so many reflections of an innate diversity of strong sentiments and stark ideologies.