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Emerging Memory: Photographs of Colonial Atrocity in Dutch Cultural Remembrance
Paul Bijl
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Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 258 pages, 0 black and white; 42 full color. BIC Classification: JWXK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 164 x 20. Weight in Grams: 542.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
Heritage and Memory Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
258
Place of Publication
Amsterdam, Netherlands
ISBN
9789089645906
SKU
V9789089645906
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Ref
99-50
About Paul Bijl
Paul Bijl is assistant professor of modern Dutch literature at the University of Amsterdam and an affiliated fellow at KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies. In his current research project, funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), he investigates the transnational circulation of the letters of the Javanese writer Kartini (1879-1904) in Indonesia, Europe and ... Read more
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