Collective Memory and the Dutch East Indies

Unremembering Decolonization

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvPaul M. Doolan,Paul M.M. Doolan

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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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Utgivningsdatum2026-01-09
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieHeritage and Memory Studies
Antal sidor334
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781041177135

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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.

Doolan's work is the most comprehensive English language account of so many forms of Dutch remembrance of the 1945-1949 period... For scholars who do not read Dutch, his review of Dutch texts that engage with remembrance of the independence war is very useful, particularly because of the synthesis of so many diverse works., Katherine McGregor, BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review, Vol. 138 (2023), [...] 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.