| Situated Testimonies: Dread and Enchantment in an Indonesian Literary Archive Subjects: Indonesian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Indonesian literature (Dutch) -- History and criticism; Literature and history -- Indonesia; Psychic trauma in literature; Psychoanalysis and literature -- Indonesia; The Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer made a distinction between a "downstream" literary reality and an "upstream" historical reality. Pramoedya suggested that literature has an effect on the upstream flow of history and that it can in fact change history. In Situated Testimonies Laurie Sears illuminates this process by considering a selection of Dutch Indies and Indonesian literary works that span the twentieth century and beyond and by showing how authors like Louis Couperus and Maria Dermoût help retell and remodel history. |