Emerging Memory - Photographs of Colonial Atrocity in Dutch Cultural Remembrance (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. 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: Photographs of Colonial Atrocity in Dutch Cultural Remembrance 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.

General

Imprint:	Amsterdam University Press
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Heritage and Memory Studies
Release date:	March 2015
First published:	August 2014
Authors:	Paul Bijl
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	258
ISBN-13:	978-90-896459-0-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Other warfare & defence issues > War crimes > General Promotions
LSN:	90-896459-0-X
Barcode:	9789089645906

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