The G30S-PKI in modern Indonesian novels by post-Reformasi women authors (Efendi et al., 2023)
2023 UNY article on how three post-Reformasi novels by women authors (Ayu Utami's Manjali dan Cakrabirawa, Leila Chudori's Pulang, Laksmi Pamuntjak's Amba) re-interpret facts of G30S, including Buru detention and 'PKI descendant' stigma. Literary context.
Women's portrayal in the works of Sugiarti Siswadi (Setiadi et al., 2023)
2023 Padjadjaran article reading three short stories by Sugiarti Siswadi (Lekra board member, Gerwani activist, Api Kartini co-initiator) as expressions of her feminism; stories first appeared in Api Kartini 1960-61. Rare study of a Gerwani writer.
Exile trauma and gender in the novel Pulang: Hirsch's postmemory (Putra et al., 2024)
2024 article analysing Leila Chudori's novel Pulang through Hirsch's postmemory and gender: an exile in Paris passes trauma to his daughter Lintang via objects and letters. Literary context.
Traumatic Memory and Family Dynamics of Political Prisoners in Chudori's Namaku Alam (Karim et al., 2025)
2025 article on Leila Chudori's novel Namaku Alam (sequel to Pulang) as literary representation of trauma transmission in families of political prisoners, using Caruth, Hirsch and Halbwachs. Literary context.
Red Nanyang: Chinese-Language Literature of Indonesia, 1945-1965 (Borgonjon, 2025)
Columbia PhD dissertation (2025) by David Borgonjon, the first full-length study of Chinese-language (yinhua) literature in Indonesia 1945-65, set within Sino-Indonesian friendship, Afro-Asian translation and Guided Democracy-era debates on labour and schooling. Gerwani is barely present: a glossary entry gives Gerwani