Collective Memory and the Dutch East Indies

Unremembering Decolonization
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-94-6372-874-4
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 334 Seiten, Format (B × H): 241 mm x 163 mm, Gewicht: 650 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Doolan, Paul

M.M. Doolan, Paul

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

M.M. Doolan, Paul
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.