Locked Out: Literature of the Indonesian Exiles Post-1965
Indonesian “exile literature” (sastra eksil) refers to the writings of Indonesian authors constrained to live in foreign countries for political reasons following the putsch of September 30, 1965. These exiles, around 500 in number, spent about fifteen years in socialist countries, mainly China, the...
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| Vydáno v: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/archipel, |
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| Médium: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Jazyk: | Anglais |
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Archipel
2017
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| On-line přístup: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Shrnutí: | Indonesian “exile literature” (sastra eksil) refers to the writings of Indonesian authors constrained to live in foreign countries for political reasons following the putsch of September 30, 1965. These exiles, around 500 in number, spent about fifteen years in socialist countries, mainly China, the USSR, Vietnam and Albania, most of them undergoing military and ideological training, and preparing themselves to bring revolution to Soeharto’s New Order, but they ended up moving to Western Europe in the 1980s and settling in capitalist countries like the Netherlands, France and Sweden. These exiles have produced an important corpus of works (about 130 books), among which are a number of autobiographical texts, which constitute a specific branch of Indonesian autobiography as a literary genre. The exiles write mainly with the aim of recovering their identity; they have been excluded, they want to go back home and be recognized as Indonesian citizens again. Most of them, however, have returned to Indonesia on visits as European nationals, thus remaining forever exiles. |
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