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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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