This book is about postcolonial memory in the Netherlands. This term refers to conflicts in contemporary society about how the colonial past should be remembered.
Gerlov van Engelenhoven is an assistant professor at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS), teaching courses on postcolonial memory, law & culture, and cultural interaction. From 2024-2028 he will run a new research project on Silence as Empowerment in Contemporary Dutch Postcolonial Memory, funded by NWO through a Veni-grant.
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Table of contents Acknowledgments Introduction Postcolonial memory in the Netherlands: Meaningful voices; meaningful silences Chapter one Two cases of Moluccan identity articulation: Deceptive voices and empowering silences in individual and collective self-representation Chapter two The case of the train hijackings: Appropriated voices and protective silences in media representation Chapter three The case of Jan Pieterszoon Coen’s statue: Repressive voices and resistant silences in public space Chapter four The case of De Grauwe Eeuw: Disruptive voices and silences in social activism Conclusion Beyond logocentrism Epilogue “East Indian deafness” Works cited Index
