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Speaking Through Silence: Trauma in Literary Work

Authors
Nungki Heriyati, Riris K. Sarumpaet, Christina T. Suprihatin
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Nungki Heriyati
Available Online 10 January 2020.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.200108.037How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Indonesia, Lasmi, Traumatic Experience and 1965
Abstract

Traumatic experience is hard to express easily because it is beyond comprehension and too threatening to be accepted into consciousness. As one of the traumatic history in Indonesia, 1965 history is inaccessible and haunts Indonesian. New Order strictly controls the history by silencing the certain group that against their power. The fall of New Order regime in 1998 triggers the survivors, researchers, and sympathizers to re-examine the history, which resulted in the various reports and testimonies. Literary work is also take part in representing the historical atrocity. Literary work is regarded as a means to give testimony to those who cannot survive during the catastrophe. However, it also faces difficulty in representing the unpresentable event. This paper analyzes how the traumatic experience depicted and problematized in Lasmi [11]. By using the concept of trauma, this paper attempts to unveil the strategy used to represent inaccessible traumatic experience. The analysis underlies two points. First, collective and personal experiences are intertwined in historical trauma. Second, silence is part of strategies as well as the resistance of the survivor to voicing their voice.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Business, Economic, Social Science, and Humanities – Humanities and Social Sciences Track (ICOBEST-HSS 2019)
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Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
10 January 2020
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978-94-6252-883-3
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.200108.037How to use a DOI?
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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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