IDEOLOGY AND WRITING IN PAPIAMENTU: A BIRD'S EYE VIEW.

The article provides an overview of ideology and writing in Papiamentu in the Netherlands Antilles. The publication of the "St. Eustatius Gazette" in Curaçcao was established in 1816, whose volumes form an invaluable source of socio-cultural, political, and economic information. It is stated that the first original texts from Dutch Antillean soil to be qualified as literature were in Spanish. Later on, the concept of creolization dominated literary writing both in Papiamentu and in Dutch.