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Beginning to remember the past in the Indonesian present edited by Mary S. Zurbuchen.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studiesPublication details: Seattle University of Washington Press 2005.Description: xvii, 376 pages illustrations 23 cmISBN:
  • 9971693038
DDC classification:
  • 959.803 ZUR
Contents:
Historical memory in contemporary Indonesia /​ Mary S. Zurbuchen My life as a shadow master under Suharto /​ Tristuti Rachmadi Kali : a libretto /​ Goenawan Mohamad The persistence of evil and the impossibility of truth in Goenawan Mohamad's Kali /​ Laurie J. Sears In search of memory : how Malay tales try to shape history /​ Hendrik M.J. Maier Collective memories of the Qahhar movement /​ Andi F. Bakti Ninjas in narratives of local and national violence in post-Suharto Indonesia /​ Fadjar I. Thufail Remembering and forgetting war and revolution /​ Anthony Reid Memory, knowledge, and reform /​ Daniel S. Lev Nugroho Notosusanto : the legacy of a historian in the service of an authoritarian regime /​ Katharine McGregor The battle for history after Suharto /​ Gerry van Klinken Lubang Buaya : histories of trauma and sites of memory /​ Klaus H. Schreiner Material witnesses : reformasi photographs and popular memory /​ Karen Strassler Monument, document, and mass grave : the politics of representing violence in Bali /​ Degung Santikarma Transitional truth-seeking : a comparative perspective on Indonesia, East Timor, and South Africa /​ Paul van Zyl.
Summary: "Beginning to Remember addresses the many ways in which Indonesians have dealt with memory, its formation and its manipulation." "The writers in this collection consider how narratives of the past have taken shape, at local, national, group and individual levels in Indonesia, exploring the reasons why various understandings of issues such as national solidarity, citizenship, power, ethnic identity, religious belief and regional loyalty appeal to different elements in modern Indonesian society. They focus in particular at how Indonesia remembers trauma and violence. This diverse group of Indonesian and international scholars and commentators develop an understanding of the issues that most concern Indonesians as they reinterpret their recent history and the society it has shaped."--BOOK JACKET.

Transitional truth-seeking : a comparative perspective on Indonesia, East Timor, and South Africa /​ Paul van Zyl.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Historical memory in contemporary Indonesia /​ Mary S. Zurbuchen My life as a shadow master under Suharto /​ Tristuti Rachmadi Kali : a libretto /​ Goenawan Mohamad The persistence of evil and the impossibility of truth in Goenawan Mohamad's Kali /​ Laurie J. Sears In search of memory : how Malay tales try to shape history /​ Hendrik M.J. Maier Collective memories of the Qahhar movement /​ Andi F. Bakti Ninjas in narratives of local and national violence in post-Suharto Indonesia /​ Fadjar I. Thufail Remembering and forgetting war and revolution /​ Anthony Reid Memory, knowledge, and reform /​ Daniel S. Lev Nugroho Notosusanto : the legacy of a historian in the service of an authoritarian regime /​ Katharine McGregor The battle for history after Suharto /​ Gerry van Klinken Lubang Buaya : histories of trauma and sites of memory /​ Klaus H. Schreiner Material witnesses : reformasi photographs and popular memory /​ Karen Strassler Monument, document, and mass grave : the politics of representing violence in Bali /​ Degung Santikarma Transitional truth-seeking : a comparative perspective on Indonesia, East Timor, and South Africa /​ Paul van Zyl.

"Beginning to Remember addresses the many ways in which Indonesians have dealt with memory, its formation and its manipulation." "The writers in this collection consider how narratives of the past have taken shape, at local, national, group and individual levels in Indonesia, exploring the reasons why various understandings of issues such as national solidarity, citizenship, power, ethnic identity, religious belief and regional loyalty appeal to different elements in modern Indonesian society. They focus in particular at how Indonesia remembers trauma and violence. This diverse group of Indonesian and international scholars and commentators develop an understanding of the issues that most concern Indonesians as they reinterpret their recent history and the society it has shaped."--BOOK JACKET.

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