1st Edition
Memory Culture of the Anti-Leftist Violence in Indonesia Embedded Remembering
By Grace Tjandra Leksana
Copyright 2023
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
This book examines how community remembers one of the most gruesome acts of violence in the 20th century: the anti-communist violence in 1965 in Indonesia. Through a case study in a rural district in East Java, this research presents complexities of memory culture of violence. These memories are not exclusively determined by the state’s repressive memory project, but are actually embedded in... Read more
List of figures, List of tables, Acknowledgements, Acronyms and Glossary, Introduction, Chapter 1- The context of remembering, Chapter 2 - Executing the violence, Chapter 3 - Embedded Remembering, Chapter 4 - Memory landscapes, Chapter 5- Postmemory, silence, and trauma in family narratives, Conclusion -Embedded Remembering, historiography, and national reconciliation.
Biography
Grace Leksana obtained her doctoral degree from Leiden University. She is currently an assistant professor in the History Department at Universitas Negeri Malang, researching collective memory, state violence, oral history, rural and agrarian studies, and decolonization. She is a member of the Indonesian Institute of Social History (Institut Sejarah Sosial Indonesia).
