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"Collective Memory and the Dutch East Indies: Unremembering Decolonization 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, memoirs 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."

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Author:   Paul Doolan
Publisher:   Amsterdam University Press
Imprint:   Amsterdam University Press
ISBN:  

9789463728744

ISBN 10:   9463728740
Pages:   334
Publication Date:   27 September 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Collective Memory and Unremembering Collective Memory Collective Unremembering Historical Representation A Short Summary of Decolonization in the Dutch East Indies 2 Representations during the War The Press Indonesia Calling: A Film Oeroeg: A Novella Historiography of the Conflict: Early Beginnings 3 Post-decolonization: The First 20 Years, 1949-1969 The Great Unremembering Loss The Existentialist Victimhood The Adventurer The Soldier The Historian 4 Breaking the Silence The Hueting Interview The Role of the Public 5 Postmemory The Moluccan Attacks Postmemory Authors Radio and Television, 1979-1988 6 Loe de Jong Controversy A Slow Change Coming Silence of the Guild Loe de Jong, Volume 11a 7 Remembering the War Ben Laurens: A Soldier Novelist Anton P. de Graaff and The Way Back Oeroeg: The Film The Boomsma Affair The Poncke Princen Affair Television The Guild Stirs 8 Conclusion Bibliography Index

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"

[...] 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

Author Information

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.

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