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Where Are You, My Little Scapegoats? Selamatan Anak Cucu Sumilah (Bielecki, 2025)
Michal Bielecki's 2025 analysis of 'Selamatan Anak Cucu Sumilah', a participatory performance (30 Nov 2018, UGM) with the Kipper forum of women ex-prisoners, commemorating Maria Goreti Sumilah, arrested at fourteen by mistake and held at Plantungan. Memorialisation through performance.
Analisis Michał Bielecki 2025 atas 'Selamatan Anak Cucu Sumilah', pertunjukan partisipatif (30 Nov 2018, UGM) bersama forum mantan tapol perempuan Kipper, mengenang Maria Goreti Sumilah, ditangkap usia empat belas karena salah orang dan ditahan di Plantungan. Memorialisasi lewat pertunjukan.
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- Date
- 2025
- Creator
- Bielecki
- Document type
- thesis (journal article (theatre and memory studies; based on a doctoral dissertation chapter and fieldwork interviews))
- Language
- English; Polish
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- Scholarship
- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- USA
- Period
- 1999–present
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- Project MUSE via UCalgary EZproxy · source link
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- Asian Theatre Journal 42(1), Spring 2025, University of Hawai'i Press, via Project MUSE (muse.jhu.edu/article/962141; DOI 10.1353/atj.2025.a962141). Library-licensed access (download stamp: University of Calgary, Project MUSE, 2026-10-14). Retrieved 2026-10-13/14. Library-licensed or subscription copy: show metadata and summary only; link to the source.
- Citation (APA)
- Bielecki, M. (2025). Where are you, my little scapegoats? Selamatan Anak Cucu Sumilah (Selamatan for the Descendants of Sumilah) as a performative memory practice around the Indonesian genocide of 1965–1966. Asian Theatre Journal, 42(1), 215–245. https://doi.org/10.1353/atj.2025.a962141
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- 02 Secondary Sources/2.4 Literature, Film, Music and Memory Activism/Bielecki (2025) - Where Are You, My Little Scapegoats, Selamatan Anak Cucu Sumilah.pdf
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- Good (0.941) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
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- 02 Secondary Sources › 2.4 Literature, Film, Music and Memory Activism
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- condensed from full annotation
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