Emerging Memory

Author

Bijl, Paul

Year

2015

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Type

BOOK

Description

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: Photographs of Colonial Atrocity in Dutch Cultural Remembrance 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.

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Emerging Memory

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Developing Asian Bondmarkets

Developing Asian Bondmarkets

CyberResearch on the Ancient Near East and Neighboring Regions

CyberResearch on the Ancient Near East and Neighboring Regions

Ethnic Drag

Ethnic Drag

Poet-Monks, The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China

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A Colonial Affair

Die Türkei und das andere Europa

Die Türkei und das andere Europa