1st Edition
Emerging Memory Photographs of Colonial Atrocity in Dutch Cultural Remembrance
By Paul Bijl
Copyright 2015
258 Pages
by
Routledge
258 Pages
by
Routledge
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... Read more
Introduction: Icons of Memory and Forgetting, Chapter 1. 1904: Imperial Frames, Chapter 2. 1904-1942: Epistemic Anxiety and Denial, Chapter 3. 1942-1966: Compartmentalized and Multidirectional Memory, Chapter 4. 1966-2010: Emerging Memory, Conclusion, Bibliography, List of Places Where the 1904 Photographs Can Be Found.
Biography
Paul Bijl is assistant professor of modern Dutch literature at the University of Amsterdam and an affiliated fellow at KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies. In his current research project, funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), he investigates the transnational circulation of the letters of the Javanese writer Kartini (1879-1904) in Indonesia, Europe and the United States.
