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dc.contributor.authorDoolan, Paul M.M.
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-18T11:09:34Z
dc.date.available2021-10-18T11:09:34Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51065
dc.description.abstractThis book 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, memoires 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.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesHeritage and Memory Studiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialismen_US
dc.subject.otherCollective Memory, Dutch East Indies, Decolonization, Postcolonialism.en_US
dc.titleCollective Memory and the Dutch East Indiesen_US
dc.title.alternativeUnremembering Decolonizationen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.5117/9789463728744en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBydd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857aen_US
oapen.relation.isbn9789463728744en_US
oapen.pages337en_US


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