GA-02897 2020 relevance C public
Buru Island: Still Much More to Reveal (Hearman, Archipel 99, 2020)
Buru Island: Still Much More to Reveal (Hearman, 2020)
Hearman's review essay (Archipel 99, 2020) of the documentary Pulau Buru: Tanah Air Beta (2016), in which Hersri Setiawan and Tejabayu Soedjojono return to Buru, with Ita Nadia and Ken Setiawan. Context on Buru and its memory.
Esai ulasan Hearman (Archipel 99, 2020) atas dokumenter Pulau Buru: Tanah Air Beta (2016), saat Hersri Setiawan dan Tejabayu Soedjojono kembali ke Buru bersama Ita Nadia dan Ken Setiawan. Konteks Buru dan memorinya.
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- Date
- 2020
- Creator
- Hearman
- Document type
- journal article (film review essay (in the Archipel dossier '1965 and Cinema II'), with journal front matter and back cover)
- Language
- English; French
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- Scholarship
- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- France
- Period
- 1999–present
- Source archive
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- OpenEdition Journals, Archipel 99 (2020), https://journals.openedition.org/archipel/1651, DOI 10.4000/archipel.1651; open access (text under CC BY-ND 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-13 (PDF generated by OpenEdition with a connection date of 11 July 2026). Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
- Citation (APA)
- Hearman, V. (2020). Buru Island: Still much more to reveal [Review of the documentary Pulau Buru: Tanah air beta, by R. Nasution, Dir.]. Archipel, 99, 29–33. https://doi.org/10.4000/archipel.1651
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- 02 Secondary Sources/2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography/Hearman (2020) - Buru Island, Still Much More to Reveal (Archipel 99).pdf
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- Good (0.891) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: yes
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- 02 Secondary Sources › 2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography
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- condensed from full annotation
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