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Transnational Memory
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Transnational Memory

by Chiara De Cesari, Ann Rigney
October 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
384 pages
13h 8m
English
De Gruyter
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Susan Legêne and Martijn Eickhoff

Postwar Europe and the Colonial Past in Photographs

“Oh dear, let us not also include the War in the Pacific . . . ” This was the first reaction to our proposal to present a paper on WWII in the final conference of the research program photoCLEC. This program was charged with investigating the meaning of colonial photograph collections in contemporary Norway, the UK and the Netherlands.160 As historians of Dutch colonialism, we saw a logical place for WWII in the study of photographic collections as colonial legacies. In Dutch historical discourse, colonialism and the war simply cannot be separated (Captain 2002; Scagliola 2002; Wiebenga 2012) since Indonesian Independence was declared only two days after the ...

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