Silenced Voices

Uncovering a Family's Colonial History in Indonesia

By: Inez Hollander

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Paperback | 13 February 2009

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Like a number of Netherlanders in the post-World War II era, Inez Hollander only gradually became aware of her family's connections with its Dutch colonial past, including a Creole great-grandmother. For the most part, such personal stories have been, if not entirely silenced, at least only whispered about in Holland, where society has remained uncomfortable with many aspects of the country's relationship with its colonial empire.

Unlike the majority of memoirs that are soaked in nostalgia for tempo dulu, Hollander's story sets out to come to grips with her family's past by weaving together personal records with historical and literary accounts of the period. She seeks not merely to locate and preserve family memories, but also to test them against a more disinterested historical record. Hers is a complicated and sometimes painful personal journey of realization, unusually mindful of the ways in which past memories and present considerations can be intermingled when we seek to understand a difficult past. Silenced Voices is an important contribution to the literature on how Dutch society has dealt with its recent colonial history.

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"The amazingly clever technique Hollander utilizes to recreate her family's past lives-juxtaposing her relatives' recollections with contemporaneous historical accounts-is one that should inspire any of us to delve deeper into our genealogies to bring our own forebears to life. This book is an extraordinary piece of research work." (Bali Advertiser) "Hollander's story helps us think in more complex ways about the history of Dutch colonialism, and the multiple legacies of the colonial relationship. Yet rather than dwelling on this aspect, it offers an honest and complex portrayal of the personal and familial consequences of colonial politics and the legacies that linger on." (Pacific Affairs)

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List of Illustrations
Introduction
Family Tree
From Polder to Empire	p. 1
Creole Roots	p. 13
Tosari Tragedy	p. 35
A New Century, a New Age	p. 45
Rubber	p. 57
1929, Turning Point	p. 75
Kali Jompo during the Great Depression	p. 91
Last Birds of Paradise	p. 103
The Japanese Invasion	p. 114
Peddy's Fate	p. 124
The Planters' Dossiers from the Secret Archives	p. 146
Wallpaper Paste and Dog Sambal	p. 154
Liberation?	p. 169
Last Train to Surabaya	p. 184
October 28, 1945 The Forgotten October Revolution	p. 198
Epilogue	p. 220
The Stucky Family and the Diest-Lorgions	p. 233
Notes	p. 237
Glossary of Dutch and Malay Words	p. 261
Bibliography	p. 265
Index	p. 271
Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.

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