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Collective memory and the Dutch East Indies : unremembering decolonization
- Title
- Collective memory and the Dutch East Indies : unremembering decolonization / Paul M.M. Doolan.
- Author
- Doolan, Paul M. M.
- Publication
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]
- ©2021
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- Description
- 334 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This book examines the afterlife of decolonization in the collective memory of the Netherlands. It offers a new perspective on the cultural history of representing the decolonization of the Dutch East Indies, and maps out how a contested collective memory was shaped. Taking a transdisciplinary approach and applying several theoretical frames from literary studies, sociology, cultural anthropology and film theory, the author reveals how mediated memories contributed to a process of what he calls "unremembering". He analyses in detail a broad variety of sources, including novels, films, documentaries, radio interviews, memoires and historical studies, to reveal how five decades of representing and remembering decolonization fed into an unremembering by which some key notions were silenced or ignored. The author concludes that historians, or the historical guild, bear much responsibility for the unremembering of decolonization in Dutch collective memory.
- Series Statement
- Heritage and memory studies
- Uniform Title
- Heritage and memory studies.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-328) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Collective memory and unremembering -- 2. Representations during the war -- 3. Post-decolonization : the first 20 years, 1949-1969 -- 4. Breaking the silence -- 5. Postmemory -- 6. Loe de Jong controversy -- 7. Remembering the war -- 8. Conclusion.
- Call Number
- JFE 22-3543
- ISBN
- 9463728740
- 9789463728744
- OCLC
- 1258071091
- Author
- Doolan, Paul M. M., author.
- Title
- Collective memory and the Dutch East Indies : unremembering decolonization / Paul M.M. Doolan.
- Publisher
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Heritage and memory studiesHeritage and memory studies.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-328) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1798-1942
- Research Call Number
- JFE 22-3543