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Dark pasts ...

Posted by Bhasi on November 19, 2009 at 11:29:21:
You raise interesting questions.
I'm reminded of the huge popularity in the UK in the mid-80's of the TV adaptation of Paul Scott's 'The Jewel in the Crown' tetralogy, which contradicted the dominant nostalgic vision of The Raj, elaborating on the themes EM Forster had begun to explore in A Passage to India. Two decades on, the murkier aspects of that period in our national history hardly feature at all in popular consciousness, I think.
As for the Mau-Mau period in Kenya .... !
I can't help feeling that current German society has on the whole a healthier engagement with its past, witnessed, for example, by the interest generated by Goldhagen's book, Hitler's Willing Executioners, ten or so years ago.