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Informationen zum Autor Inez Hollander teaches in the Dutch Studies Program at UC Berkeley. Her publications include The Road from Pompey's Head: The Life and Work of Hamilton Basso and a memoir! Awakening from the American Dream. Klappentext Like a number of Netherlanders in the post World War II era! Inez Hollander only gradually became aware that her family had significant connections with its Dutch colonial past! including an Indonesian great-grandmother. Unlike the majority of memoirs that are soaked in nostalgia for tempo doeloe! Hollander's sets out to come to grips with her family's past by weaving together personal records with more general! academic views of the period. 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. "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" Zusammenfassung Like a number of Netherlanders in the post World War II era, the author only gradually became aware that her family had significant connections with its Dutch colonial past, including an Indonesian great-grandmother. This book presents her painful personal journey of realization, and unusually mindful of the ways in which past memories.
