Collective Memory and the Dutch East Indies

Paul Doolan was born and raised in the Republic of Ireland. He has spent over 30 years teaching history in the Netherlands, Japan and Switzerland. He studied history at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and completed his PhD at the University of Konstanz, Germany.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Collective Memory and Unremembering
Collective Memory
Collective Unremembering
Historical Representation
A Short Summary of Decolonization in the Dutch East Indies

2 Representations during the War
The Press
Indonesia Calling: A Film
Oeroeg: A Novella
Historiography of the Conflict: Early Beginnings

3 Post-decolonization: The First 20 Years, 1949-1969
The Great Unremembering
Loss
The Existentialist
Victimhood
The Adventurer
The Soldier
The Historian

4 Breaking the Silence
The Hueting Interview
The Role of the Public

5 Postmemory
The Moluccan Attacks
Postmemory Authors
Radio and Television, 1979-1988

6 Loe de Jong Controversy
A Slow Change Coming
Silence of the Guild
Loe de Jong, Volume 11a

7 Remembering the War
Ben Laurens: A Soldier Novelist
Anton P. de Graaff and The Way Back
Oeroeg: The Film
The Boomsma Affair
The Poncke Princen Affair
Television
The Guild Stirs

8 Conclusion

Bibliography
Index