IDENTITIES IN EXILE: Re-membering Identities, Re-membering the Nation in Laksmi Pamuntjak's Amba.
Laksmi Pamuntjak's first novel, Amba (2012) is one of several contemporary Indonesian novels by the post-1965 generation that breaks the silence on the violent suppression of the Indonesian left in the mid-1960s. Like other recent creative responses and initiatives by Indonesian artists and civil so...
| Publicado en: | Kritika Kultura no. 33/34; pp. 65 - 88 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=137805144&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 137805144 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 20946937 786B jtl: Kritika Kultura issn: 20946937 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2020 iid: 33/34 pid: 51553 pub: Kritika Kultura artinfo: ui: 137805144 10.13185/1656-152x.1796 ppf: 65 ppct: 23 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 978KB tig: atl: IDENTITIES IN EXILE: Re-membering Identities, Re-membering the Nation in Laksmi Pamuntjak's Amba. aug: au: Ahmad, Siti Nuraishah affil: International Islamic University Malaysia su: Identity politics Pamuntjak, Laksmi Political violence sug: subj: Identity politics Pamuntjak, Laksmi Political violence keyword: contemporary Indonesian fiction exile in fiction Indonesia 1965-66 Laksmi Pamuntjak literature and memory literature and postmemory ab: Laksmi Pamuntjak's first novel, Amba (2012) is one of several contemporary Indonesian novels by the post-1965 generation that breaks the silence on the violent suppression of the Indonesian left in the mid-1960s. Like other recent creative responses and initiatives by Indonesian artists and civil society, Amba represents the "postmemory" of the 1965-66 events. This paper examines the modes of internal exile triggered by 1965 as portrayed in three characters in Amba and how exile disrupts and delays identity formation across different generations of Indonesians--hence, exiled identities. The history of Moluccan exile post-1950 is also crucial to the novel's representation of people whose identities were displaced, ruptured, or in limbo as a result of political violence. The depiction of internal exile in Amba is examined based on work done by scholars on Indonesian exile narratives (Hill, Hearman) and concepts of transgenerational trauma (Schwab) and postmemory (Hirsch). This paper then discusses the various acts of "re-membering" to recover a coherent sense of self and of the nation depicted in Amba, such as through literal and figurative journeys, re-establishing kinship ties, narrating personal memories of the traumatic past, and the role of art in revealing suppressed memories of the 1965 event. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Kritika Kultura is the property of Kritika Kultura and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Kritika Kultura holder: Kritika Kultura dt: @attributes: year: 2020 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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