

- Title
- Emerging Memory
- Subtitle
- Photographs of Colonial Atrocity in Dutch Cultural Remembrance
- Author
- Paul Bijl
- Price
- € 129,00 excl. VAT
- ISBN
- 9789089645906
- Format
- Hardback
- Number of pages
- 258
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 20 - 03 - 2015
- Dimensions
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Open Access
- Download on Open Access Platform
- Partner
- Category
- Sociology and Social History
- Discipline
- Social and Political Sciences
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- eBook PDF - € 0,00
Introduction: Icons of Memory and Forgetting
Chapter 1. 1904: Imperial Frames
Chapter 2. 1904-1942: Epistemic Anxiety and Denial
Chapter 3. 1942-1966: Compartmentalized and Multidirectional Memory
Chapter 4. 1966-2010: Emerging Memory
Conclusion
Bibliography
List of Places Where the 1904 Photographs Can Be Found
Paul Bijl
Emerging Memory
Photographs of Colonial Atrocity in Dutch Cultural Remembrance
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.
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.
Author
Paul Bijl
Paul Bijl is assistant professor of modern Dutch literature at the University of Amsterdam and an affiliated fellow at KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies. In his current research project, funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), he investigates the transnational circulation of the letters of the Javanese writer Kartini (1879-1904) in Indonesia, Europe and the United States.
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