Identities in exile: re-membering identities, re-membering the nation in Laksmi Pamuntjak's amba

• Main Author: Ahmad, Siti Nuraishah
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English; English
• Published: Department of English of the Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines. 2019
• Subjects: PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania; PL5101 Malay
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/72007/1/72007_Identities%20in%20exile-%20Re-membering%20Identities.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/72007/7/72007_Identities%20in%20exile-%20Re-membering%20identities%2C%20re-membering%20the%20nation%20in%20laksmi%20pamuntjak%E2%80%99s%20amba_Scopus.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/72007/13/72007_Identities%20in%20exile_re-membering%20identities_wos.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/72007/; https://journals.ateneo.edu/ojs/index.php/kk/article/view/3114/2935
• Institution: Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia

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...