Emerging Memory

Photographs of Colonial Atrocity in Dutch Cultural Remembrance
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-17868-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Heritage and Memory Studies

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.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bijl, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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.