Emerging Memory Paul Bijl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bijl, Paul, author.

Series:

Heritage and Memory Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Indonesia--Colonization--History.

Indonesia.

Indonesia--History--1798-1942.

Netherlands--Colonies--Asia--History--20th century.

Netherlands.

Netherlands--Colonies--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This incisive volume brings together postcolonial studies, visual culture, and cultural memory studies to explain how the Netherlands continues to rediscover its history of violence in colonial Indonesia. Dutch commentators have frequently claimed that the colonial past and especially the violence associated with it has been "forgotten" in the Netherlands. Uncovering "lost" photographs and other documents of violence has thereby become a recurring feature aimed at unmasking a hidden truth. The author argues that, rather than absent, such images have been consistently present in the Dutch public sphere and have been widely available in print, on television, and now on the internet. Emerging Memory shows that between memory and forgetting there is a haunted zone from which pasts that do not fit the stories nations live by keep on emerging and submerging while retaining their disturbing presence.

Contents:

Front matter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Imperial Frames, 1904

2. Epistemic Anxiety and Denial, 1904‑1942

3. Compartmentalized and Multidirectional Memory, 1949-1966

4. Emerging memory, 1966-2010

Conclusion

Bibliography

List of where the 1904 photographs have appeared

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-69468-3

1-04-080051-3

90-485-2201-3

9781003694687

OCLC:

910651277

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access