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Traumatic Memory and Family Dynamics of Political Prisoners in Leila S. Chudori's Namaku Alam (Karim et al., 2025)

Traumatic Memory and Family Dynamics of Political Prisoners in Chudori's Namaku Alam (Karim et al., 2025)

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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.

Artikel 2025 tentang novel Leila Chudori Namaku Alam (lanjutan Pulang) sebagai representasi sastra transmisi trauma dalam keluarga tahanan politik, memakai Caruth, Hirsch dan Halbwachs. Konteks sastra.

People

Leila S. ChudoriCathy CaruthMarianne Hirsch

Places

Indonesia

Topics

art, literature and musicmemory, testimony and justicetheory and methodarrests and detention

Tags

trauma and silencesecond generationexileliterary work

Details

Date
2025
Creator
Karim et al.
Document type
journal article (journal article (literary criticism; trauma and memory studies reading of a novel))
Language
English; Indonesian
Perspective
Scholarship
Source role
secondary
Country
Indonesia
Period
1999–present
Source archive
UGM OJS (Poetika) · source link
Access
Poetika: Jurnal Ilmu Sastra (Universitas Gadjah Mada), vol. 13, no. 1, June 2025, https://jurnal.ugm.ac.id/poetika, DOI 10.22146/poetika.v13i1.105970. Open access. Retrieved 2026-10-13. Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
Citation (APA)
Karim, A. A., Putra, N. R., Amiruddin, N., Handoko, A. R. J., Ekklesia, M. V., & Vidyanita, N. (2025). Traumatic memory and family dynamics of political prisoners in Leila S. Chudori's Namaku Alam. Poetika: Jurnal Ilmu Sastra, 13(1), 51–62. https://doi.org/10.22146/poetika.v13i1.105970
File
02 Secondary Sources/2.4 Literature, Film, Music and Memory Activism/Karim et al. (2025) - Traumatic Memory and Family Dynamics of Political Prisoners in Leila S. Chudori's Namaku Alam.pdf
OCR / text
Good (0.892) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
Collection
02 Secondary Sources › 2.4 Literature, Film, Music and Memory Activism
Summary basis
condensed from full annotation

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