Emerging Memory Photographs of Colonial Atrocity in Dutch Cultural Remembrance / Paul Bijl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bijl, Paul, author.

Series:

Heritage and memory studies

Heritage and Memory Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 pages).

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2015.

System Details:

text file

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: Photographs of Colonial Atrocity in Dutch Cultural Remembrance 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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 101341

ISBN:

9789048522019