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Collective Memory and the Dutch East Indies: Unremembering Decolonization (Heritage and Memory Studies) by Paul Doolan; Anne Kwaschik; Sven Trakulhun; Marcus Sandl; Universität Konstanz is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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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Author

Paul Doolan; Anne Kwaschik; Sven Trakulhun; Marcus Sandl; Universität Konstanz

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9789463728744

Category

nonfiction