Emerging Memory Photographs of Colonial Atrocity in Dutch Cultural Remembrance

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 as...

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Main Author:	Bijl, Paul
Format:	eBook Book
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2015 Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
Edition:	1
Series:	Heritage and Memory Studies
Subjects:	Aceh Atrocities-History Colonialism Colonialism and imperialism De Jong Dutch East Indies Dutch people Europe Gotfried Coenraad Ernst van Daalen History History and Archaeology History: specific events and topics Indonesia > Colonization > History Indonesia > History > 1798-1942 J. B. van Heutsz Netherlands Netherlands > Colonies > Asia > History > 20th century Netherlands > Colonies > History Netherlands-History Scandinavia World history War crimes Europe Social and Political Sciences South General AUP Wetenschappelijk Sociology and Social History HISTORY Forgetting Western Modernity Haunting Memories Dutch Memory The Atjeh Photographs
ISBN:	908964590X, 9789089645906, 9789048522019, 9048522013, 1041178689, 9781041178682
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Table of Contents:

Emerging memory: photographs of colonial atrocity in Dutch cultural remembrance -- 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.
Front Matter 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
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 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 -- 1 Imperial Frames, 1904 -- 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 -- 2 Epistemic Anxiety and Denial, 1904-1942 -- 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 -- 3 Compartmentalized and Multidirectional Memory, 1949-1966 -- Compartmentalized Memory -- Multidirectional Memory -- Conclusion -- 4 Emerging Memory, 1966-2010 -- The Atjeh Photographs and the Violence of Western Modernity -- Emerging Memory -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- List of where the 1904 Photographs have Appeared -- Index