A Family Occupation: Children of the War and the Memory of World War II in Dutch Literature of the 1980s

A Family Occupation: Children of the War and the Memory of World War II in Dutch Literature of the 1980s
ISBN-10
9053562362
ISBN-13
9789053562369
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
211
Language
English
Published
1997
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Author
Jolanda Vanderwal Taylor

Description

A Family Occupation investigates Dutch-language texts by well-known authors which address the occupation and its aftermath in the lives of victims, collaborators, bystanders and Dutch internees in the prison-camps of Indonesia. It is the first English-language introduction to writings by and about the "Children of War" and their cultural context. Their themes and literary conventions throw an interesting light on the Dutch approach to issues such as guilt and innocence, memory and narrative, national identity, victimhood, child abuse, post-traumatic stress disorder, amnesia and recovered memory.

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