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 a...

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Main Author: Bijl, Paul (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.