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Testimonio and Telling: Women's Narratives of Genocide, Torture and Political Imprisonment in Post-Suharto Indonesia (Pohlman, 2008)
Testimonio and Telling: Women's Narratives of Genocide, Torture and Imprisonment (Pohlman, 2008)
Annie Pohlman's 2008 article adopting the Latin American genre of testimonio to analyse women's narratives of genocide, torture and detention in the absence of official inquiry; examines collective voice and discursive strategies around sexual violence.
Artikel Annie Pohlman 2008 yang memakai genre testimonio Amerika Latin untuk menganalisis narasi perempuan tentang genosida, penyiksaan dan penahanan tanpa penyelidikan resmi; menelaah suara kolektif dan strategi diskursif seputar kekerasan seksual.
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- Date
- 2008
- Creator
- Pohlman
- Document type
- journal article (peer-reviewed journal article (oral history / life-writing methodology, based on interviews 2002 and 2005))
- Language
- English; Indonesian
- Perspective
- Scholarship
- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- UK
- Period
- 1999–present
- Source archive
- Taylor & Francis via UCalgary EZproxy · source link
- Access
- Taylor & Francis Online, Life Writing 5(1), DOI 10.1080/14484520801902332 (published online 6 June 2008); library-licensed PDF (not open access) in Nath's Gerwani folder; retrieved 2026-10-13. Library-licensed or subscription copy: show metadata and summary only; link to the source.
- Citation (APA)
- Pohlman, A. (2008). Testimonio and telling women's narratives of genocide, torture and political imprisonment in post-Suharto Indonesia. Life Writing, 5(1), 47–60. https://doi.org/10.1080/14484520801902332
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- 02 Secondary Sources/2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography/Pohlman (2008) - Testimonio and Telling Women's Narratives of Genocide, Torture and Political Imprisonment in Post-Suharto Indonesia.pdf
- OCR / text
- Good (0.954) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
- Collection
- 02 Secondary Sources › 2.2 1965 Violence, Sexual Slander, Memory and Historiography
- Summary basis
- condensed from full annotation
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