Emerging memory : photographs of colonial atrocity in Dutch cultural remembrance /

Emerging memory : photographs of colonial atrocity in Dutch cultural remembrance /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Bijl, Paul, author.
Imprint:	Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2015]
Description:	1 online resource (258 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Heritage and Memory Studies
Subject:	Colonization. Netherlandish colonies. Netherlands -- Colonies -- History. Netherlands -- Colonies -- Asia -- History -- 20th century. Indonesia -- History -- 1798-1942. Indonesia -- Colonization -- History. Asia. Indonesia. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11675873

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ISBN:	9048522013 9789048522019 9789089645906 908964590X
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Open Access In English. Print version record.
Summary:	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 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.
Other form:	Print version: 908964590X 9789089645906
Standard no.:	10.1515/9789048522019

Table of Contents:

Cover
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Imperial Frames, 1904
2. Epistemic Anxiety and Denial, 1904-1942
3. Compartmentalized and Multidirectional Memory, 1949-1966
4. Emerging memory, 1966-2010
Conclusion
Bibliography
List of where the 1904 photographs have appeared
Index
Icons of Memory and Forgetting
Dutch Colonial Memory
Dutch Colonial Forgetting
Forgetting in Cultural Memory Studies
Objects: The 1904 Photographs as Portable Monuments
Method: Frame Analysis
Emerging Memory: Between Semanticization and Cultural Aphasia
A Lack of Interest?
Overview
Introduction
The 1904 Expedition and the Atjeh War
The Surface of the 1904 Photographs
Genres of Empire
Images of Imperial Massacres
Times of Empire
Conclusion
The Ethical Distribution of the Perceptible
Managing Established Frames
Icons of the Nation
Haunting Memories
An Icon of One Man's Cruelty
Uncomfortable Colonial Conservatism
Conclusion
Compartmentalized Memory
Multidirectional Memory
Conclusion
The Atjeh Photographs and the Violence of Western Modernity
Emerging Memory.