Collective Memory and the Dutch East Indies

Paul Doolan

book: Collective Memory and the Dutch East Indies

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2021

Collective Memory and the Dutch East Indies

Unremembering Decolonization

Paul Doolan

Volume 13 in the series Heritage and Memory Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048553075

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About this book

This book examines the afterlife of decolonization in the collective memory of the Netherlands. It offers a new perspective on the cultural history of representing the decolonization of the Dutch East Indies, and maps out how a contested collective memory was shaped. Taking a transdisciplinary approach and applying several theoretical frames from literary studies, sociology, cultural anthropology and film theory, the author reveals how mediated memories contributed to a process of what he calls “unremembering.” He analyses in detail a broad variety of sources, including novels, films, documentaries, radio interviews, memoires and historical studies, to reveal how five decades of representing and remembering decolonization fed into an unremembering by which some key notions were silenced or ignored. The author concludes that historians, or the historical guild, bear much responsibility for the unremembering of decolonization in Dutch collective memory.

Author information

DoolanPaul:

Paul Doolan was born and raised in the Republic of Ireland. He has spent over 30 years teaching history in the Netherlands, Japan and Switzerland. He studied history at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and completed his PhD at the University of Konstanz, Germany.

Reviews

"[...] this is quite an impressive, courageous, and ambitious attempt to sketch the whole process of the development of collective (un)remembering. [...] a complete and detailed overview, covering all facets."
- Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson, Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies, Vol. 42, Iss. 1

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
Abbreviations Open Access Download PDF	7
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	9
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	11
1 Collective Memory and Unremembering Open Access Download PDF	15
2 Representations during the War Open Access Download PDF	27
3 Post-decolonization: The First 20 Years, 1949-1969 Open Access Download PDF	63
4 Breaking the Silence Open Access Download PDF	135
5 Postmemory Open Access Download PDF	169
6 Loe de Jong Controversy Open Access Download PDF	199
7 Remembering the War Open Access Download PDF	233
8 Conclusion Open Access Download PDF	297
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	305
Index Open Access Download PDF	329

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 334
Keywords: Collective Memory; Dutch East Indies; Decolonization; Postcolonialism.

eBook

Published: September 27, 2021
ISBN: 9789048553075