L. de Jong, Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in de tweede wereldoorlog, XIa, Nederlands-Indië I

Locher‐Scholten, Elsbeth

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“…You have no business here." 105 The story closes with the narrator's words: "It goes without saying that I didn't understand him. I knew him, like I knew Telaga Hideung -as a mirrored surface.…”

Section: Oeroeg: a Novellamentioning

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“…Thanks to a series of essays published in Indonesia, in the newspapers Nieuwsgier and Het Vrije Volk in the early 1950s, the name Robinson became a renowned, especially when a selection of the essays were published in two volumes in Bandung in 1952 and 1954, under the title Piekerans van een straatslijper (Ruminations of a flâneur). 105 Robinson recognized that an exiled people lose the loci of their memories and are in danger of losing their identity. Many of these essays find Robertson wandering through the romantic city of his memory, pre-war Batavia.…”

Section: A Flâneur In Bataviamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Scores of Indonesian villagers, women as well as men, sing and dance with joy and shout support to the rapists and killers as they watch the brutal spectacle. Van der Hoogte supplies us with a detailed account of this harrowing incident (95)(96)(97)(98)(99)(100)(101)(102)(103)(104)(105)(106)(107)(108). When Opzomer interrogate the suspects, he realizes that such collective violence goes beyond reason (111).…”

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“…The British could have stabilized the violent situation, but Mountbatten and General Christison made errors, leading to the appeasement of the Indonesian republican leadership. Consequently, the work of generations of Dutch colonials was lost (95)(96)(97)(98)(99)(100)(101)(102)(103)(104)(105). He criticized the UN, which "trained its guns on the Netherlands" after the "police action" of 1947.…”

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“…Beyozen offers a beautiful girl a ride in his jeep but is upset when she then offers him sex (88-89). During a night out, he witnesses a slim Chinese girl dancing naked for his drunken comrades (104)(105)(106)(107). He admits that if he did not have Laura, he too would pay for sex and probably contract syphilis.…”

Section: The Soldiermentioning

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Collective Memory and the Dutch East Indies

Doolan¹

2021

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This book is revised version of my dissertation submitted as a doctoral thesis to the University of Konstanz, Germany. The referees were Professors Anne Kwaschik (chair), Sven Trakulhun (supervisor) and Marcus Sandl. The oral examination took place on 15 July 2020.Firstly, I wish to thank the members of my doctoral committee, Anne Kwaschik, Marcus Sandl and Sven Trakulhun. A huge thanks to Sven Trakulhun, who took on this project without really knowing what he was getting into and who never ceased to believe in it for the last decade or so. For commenting on an early draft of the first chapters, I would like to thank Gert Oostindie and Henk Schulte Nordholt of the Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) in Leiden. Anne-Lot Hoek in Amsterdam and Jennifer Foray at Purdue University, USA, were both generous in sharing their ideas on some of the issues I discuss. A special thanks to Remco Raben at the University of Amsterdam for his encouragement and his very generous support. Thank you to Mariam Habibi at the American Graduate School in Paris for sharing ideas on collective memory. Thank you to Inge Genee and the anonymous reviewers of the Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies; my discussion of the works of Maria Dermoût is better for their constructive suggestions. A special thank you to Julia Benschop-Plokker, Irene van Rossum and Jaap Wagenaar at Amsterdam University Press for guiding me through the process of bringing this work to publication. I am indebted to Judith Allan and Ed Hatton for their outstanding editing. I am very grateful to Esther Captain of KITLV in Leiden and Nicole Immler of the University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht; they both read the entire manuscript and their perceptive suggestions helped to make it a better work. It goes without saying that any remaining errors of fact or misinterpretations are my sole responsibility.Thank you to the staff, librarians and archivists at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) in Leiden, the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam, the Eye Film Institute in Amsterdam and the Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum. The digitalized historical collection of newspapers at the Royal Library in The Hague, known as Delpher, was a godsend to me, while working remotely in Switzerland. A special thanks to Anja Doolan for being my secret library assistant at the University of Amsterdam. I am grateful to Eilís Doolan, who did most of the proofreading, and Esther de Vries, who 10 COLLEC TIVE MEMORY AND THE DUTCH EAST INDIES checked the footnotes. Thanks to Jutta Pfleger and Vera Lutzke for helping with the German summaries in my original thesis.My numerous research trips to the Netherlands were made extra pleasant by the fact that I was always provided with a roof over my head by friends. Thank you to Carolien van Tilburg and Eric van Kooij for supplying me with a room in their home in The Hague. I am hugely grateful to Elaine Flynn and Julf Helsingius...

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