Emerging Memory

by Bijl, Paul

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Title Statements

Full title :Emerging Memory / Paul Bijl.

Summary

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2015

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Amsterdam University Press
Place of Publication:Amsterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (258 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789048522019, 9048522013
oclc:on1111523309
LC Classification:DS643
Dewey Decimal:959.8/0223

Subjects

Asia colonization History HISTORY / Europe / Scandinavia Indonesia Indonesia -- Colonization Indonesia -- History -- 1798-1942 Indonésie -- Histoire -- 1798-1942 Netherlandish colonies Netherlands -- Colonies Netherlands -- Colonies -- 20th century… Pays-Bas -- Colonies Pays-Bas -- Colonies -- 20e siècle