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Record Nr.

UNINA9910258753003321

Autore

Bijl Paul

Titolo

Emerging Memory / Paul Bijl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, 2016

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , [2015]

©[2015]

ISBN

90-485-2201-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Collana

Heritage and Memory Studies

Disciplina

959.8/0223

Soggetti

History / Europe / Scandinavia

History

Electronic books.

Indonesia Colonization History

Indonesia History 1798-1942

Netherlands Colonies Asia History 20th century

Netherlands Colonies History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.