Published: 2021-02-16

From uncanny Flanders to fantastic, specialty of Belgian francophone literature

Renata Bizek-Tatara Logo ORCID

Abstract

This paper shows how the image of the uncanny Flanders, elaborated in the early nineteenth century by Madame de Staël as well as by French writers and voyagers contributed to the specificity of Belgian francophone literature and especially to the creation of the concept of the Belgian school of the bizarre. He examines the impact of the hetero-image on self-image and the role of literature in the formation and perpetuation of the stereotype of Belgium, land of strange. It reveals how Belgian writers used, petrified and propagated this image to build their difference and show their belgité in order to make it a specificity of Belgium.

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Bizek-Tatara, R. (2021). From uncanny Flanders to fantastic, specialty of Belgian francophone literature. Romanica Silesiana, 16(2), 158–167. https://doi.org/10.31261/RS.2019.16.15

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Vol. 16 No. 2 (2019)
Published: 2021-05-28


ISSN: 1898-2433
eISSN: 2353-9887

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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