Paul M. M. Doolan

Collective Memory and the Dutch East Indies (eBook, ePUB)

Unremembering Decolonization

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040789575
• Artikelnr.: 75563110

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.