In this Book
- Emerging Memory: Photographs of Colonial Atrocity in Dutch Cultural Remembrance
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Amsterdam University Press
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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: 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.
Table of Contents
- Half-Title, Title, Copyright
- pp. 1-4
- Table of Contents
- pp. 5-6
- Acknowledgements
- pp. 7-8
- 1. Imperial Frames, 1904
- pp. 43-84
- 4. Emerging memory, 1966-2010
- pp. 185-222
- Conclusion
- pp. 223-228
- Bibliography
- pp. 229-246
Additional Information
ISBN
9789048522019
Related ISBN(s)
9789089645906
MARC Record
OCLC
1111523309
Pages
255
Launched on MUSE
2019-08-06
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND
Copyright
2015