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Summary:

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 now on the internet. Emerging Memory shows that between memory and forgetting there is a haunted zone from which pasts that do not fit the stories nations live by keep on emerging and submerging while retaining their disturbing presence.

Table of Contents:

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1. Imperial Frames, 1904
• 2. Epistemic Anxiety and Denial, 1904-1942
• 3. Compartmentalized and Multidirectional Memory, 1949-1966
• 4. Emerging memory, 1966-2010
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• List of where the 1904 photographs have appeared
• Index
• Icons of Memory and Forgetting
• Dutch Colonial Memory
• Dutch Colonial Forgetting
• Forgetting in Cultural Memory Studies
• Objects: The 1904 Photographs as Portable Monuments
• Method: Frame Analysis
• Emerging Memory: Between Semanticization and Cultural Aphasia
• A Lack of Interest?

• Overview
• Introduction
• The 1904 Expedition and the Atjeh War
• The Surface of the 1904 Photographs
• Genres of Empire
• Images of Imperial Massacres
• Times of Empire
• Conclusion
• The Ethical Distribution of the Perceptible
• Managing Established Frames
• Icons of the Nation
• Haunting Memories
• An Icon of One Man's Cruelty
• Uncomfortable Colonial Conservatism
• Conclusion
• Compartmentalized Memory
• Multidirectional Memory
• Conclusion
• The Atjeh Photographs and the Violence of Western Modernity
• Emerging Memory.

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Author/Creator:

Bijl, Paul , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

In English.

Main Work:

Emerging memory: photographs of colonial atrocity in Dutch cultural remembrance [by Bijl, P.]

Related Series:

Heritage and memory studies

Subjects:

Netherlands — Colonies — History

Netherlands — Colonies — Asia — History — 20th century

Indonesia — History — 1798-1942

Indonesia — Colonization — History

Colonization

Netherlandish colonies

Asia

Indonesia

1798-1999

Netherlands

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 pages) : illustrations.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

DS643 .B55 2015eb

ISBNs:

9048522013 (electronic bk.)
9789048522019 (electronic bk.)
9789089645906 (electronic bk.)
908964590X (electronic bk.)

OCLC Numbers:

910651277