02903nam 22005055 450 991050267580332120231005190120.090-485-5307-510.1515/9789048553075(CKB)5590000000570259(DE-B1597)590513(DE-B1597)9789048553075(MiAaPQ)EBC30406537(Au-PeEL)EBL30406537(OCoLC)1274137457(EXLCZ)99559000000057025920211129h20212021 fg engur||#||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCollective Memory and the Dutch East Indies Unremembering Decolonization /Paul DoolanFirst edition.Amsterdam :Amsterdam University Press,[2021]©20211 online resource (334 pages)Heritage and Memory Studies ;13.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 --IndexThis 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.Heritage and Memory StudiesCollective memoryNetherlandsDecolonizationNetherlandsCollective Memory, Dutch East Indies, Decolonization, Postcolonialism.Collective memoryDecolonization959.8/022NQ 9430SEPArvkDoolan Paulauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autDE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910502675803321Collective Memory and the Dutch East Indies2838650UNINA