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Author Doolan, Paul M. M, author

Title Collective memory and the Dutch East Indies : unremembering decolonization / Paul M.M. Doolan
Published Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Series Heritage and memory studies
Heritage and memory studies.
Contents Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index
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
Analysis Collective Memory, Dutch East Indies, Decolonization, Postcolonialism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Collective memory -- Netherlands
Decolonization -- Netherlands
European history.
Colonialism and imperialism.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Collective memory
Decolonization
Netherlandish colonies
Mixed heritage / mixed race groups or people.
History of other geographical groupings and regions.
National liberation and independence.
SUBJECT Netherlands -- Colonies -- Asia -- History
Indonesia -- History -- 1798-1942. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85065744
Netherlands -- Colonies -- History
Subject Asia
Indonesia
Netherlands
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789048553075
9048553075