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"We have all silent parents": Colonialism and Cosmopolitanism in 'My Father's War'
Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS).
2008 (engelsk)Konferansepaper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Annet vitenskapelig)
Abstract [en]

In Adriaan van Dis's novel "Indische Duinen" (1994; translated into English as "My Father's War" in 2005) a family migrates from Indonesia to the Netherlands. They leave a Japanese concentration camp behind, but have a hard time finding peace in the Netherlands. A son is born, whom 46 years later reveals the secrets and lies of his relatives. The novel was published almost 50 years after the Indonesian declaration of independence. "Indische Duinen" played an important role in the public debate which during the mid 1990s dealt with Dutch colonial history and the position of Dutch-Indonesians in the Netherlands, their memories of the Dutch-Indies and the Japanese occupation as well as of the role of the Dutch during the colonial period. These were issues which were hardly discussed in post Second World War Holland, when rather memories of a war won from the Germans dominated the scene. Colonialism and the Second World War both produced societal traumas which involved great numbers of people and touched individual lives in different parts of the world in crucial ways. Globalisation processes and their problems are at the forefront of these traumas. Notions of cosmopolitanism and global citizenship (Appiah; Bauman; Beck; Held) are often used to take issue with amongst others senses of insecurity, the fear of, as well as the fascination with anything "foreign". The paper critically addresses the global and local problems and cosmopolitan solutions which can be identified in the literary interpretation of these traumas by van Dis in "Indische Duinen".

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cosmopolitanism, colonialism, migration, literature
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-10868Lokal ID: 7433OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-10868DiVA, id: diva2:1407911
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Migration and Memory : Representations of Migration in Europe since 1960, Malmö, Sweden (2008)
Tilgjengelig fra: 2020-02-29 Laget: 2020-02-29 Sist oppdatert: 2022-06-27bibliografisk kontrollert

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