02738nam 22004575 450 99650066620331620221201113901.090-485-5579-510.1515/9789048555796(CKB)5710000000101492(DE-B1597)640978(DE-B1597)9789048555796(EXLCZ)99571000000010149220221201h20222022 fg engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPostcolonial Memory in the Netherlands Meaningful Voices, Meaningful Silences /Gerlov EngelenhovenAmsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2022]©20221 online resource (162 p.)Heritage and Memory Studies ;19Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Two cases of Moluccan identity articulation -- 2 The case of the train hijackings -- 3 The case of Jan Pieterszoon Coen’s statue -- 4 The case of De Grauwe Eeuw -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- IndexThis book is about postcolonial memory in the Netherlands. This term refers to conflicts in contemporary society about how the colonial past should be remembered. The question is often: who has the right or ability to tell their stories and who do not? In other words: who has a voice, and who is silenced? As such, these conflicts represent a wider tendency in cultural theory and activism to use voice as a metaphor for empowerment and silence as voice’s negative counterpart, signifying powerlessness. And yet, there are voices that do not liberate us from, but rather subject us to power. Meanwhile, silence can be powerful: it can protect, disrupt and reconfigure. Throughout this book, it will become clear how voice and silence function not as each other’s opposites, but as each other’s continuation, and that postcolonial memory is articulated through the interplay of meaningful voices and meaningful silences.Collective memoryNetherlandsPostcolonialismNetherlandsHISTORY / Europe / WesternbisacshCultural heritage, Colonial memory, Moluccan community in the Netherlands, Postcolonial identity, Diaspora.Collective memoryPostcolonialismHISTORY / Europe / Western.325.3492Engelenhoven Gerlov, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1271627DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK996500666203316Postcolonial Memory in the Netherlands2995612UNISA