Pauline Stoltz

This book investigates the importance of gender and resistance to silences and denials concerning human rights abuses and historical injustices in narratives on transnational memories of three violent conflicts in Indonesia. Transnational memories of violent conflicts travel abroad with politicians, postcolonial migrants and refugees. Starting with the Japanese occupation of Indonesia (1942–1945), the war of independence (1945–1949) and the genocide of 1965, the volume analyses narratives in Dutch and Indonesian novels in relation to social and political narratives (1942–2015). By focusing on gender and resistance from both Indonesian and Dutch, transnational and global perspectives, the author provides new perspectives on memories of the conflicts that are relevant to research on transitional justice and memory politics.

This book investigates the importance of gender and resistance to silences and denials concerning human rights abuses and historical injustices in narratives on transnational memories of three violent conflicts in Indonesia. Transnational memories of violent conflicts travel abroad with politicians, postcolonial migrants and refugees. Starting with the Japanese occupation of Indonesia (1942–1945), the war of independence (1945–1949) and the genocide of 1965, the volume analyses narratives in Dutch and Indonesian novels in relation to social and political narratives (1942–2015). By focusing on gender and resistance from both Indonesian and Dutch, transnational and global perspectives, the author provides new perspectives on memories of the conflicts that are relevant to research on transitional justice and memory politics.

Fortællinger spiller en afgørende rolle i alle sociale omgangsformer, ikke blot som en måde at formidle information på, men også som en måde at påvirke andre og forme virkeligheden, så den ser ud på en bestemt måde. I en lang række sammenhænge opleves det, at narrativer bruges strategisk til at fremme bestemte dagsordner. I en mere hverdagslig forstand kan fortællinger spille en vigtig rolle som det kit, der binder sociale relationer sammen og skaber en sammenhængende identitet for individer. Derfor er narrativ analyse en vigtig discipin i samfundsvidenskab og humaniora. Denne bog gennemgår den narrative analyses mange facetter. Den giver en indføring i, hvad narrativ analyse indebærer, og supplerer med en række eksempler på, hvordan analyserne laves i praksis. Bogen er skrevet som lærebog til studerende på universiteter og professionshøjskoler og som håndbog til forskere, der selv arbejder med narrative studier.