Generational Politics in Toer’s Work

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201215.426How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Generational Politics, Indonesia

Abstract

Throughout Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s work, the reader can discover the younger generations that were leading the movements for progressive change within Indonesia. One motive to demand change was the desire to escape from the constant warfare the young generation had experienced under the rule of the Dutch and Japanese. The difference of ideology between the present and past generations, as a result, created a generational divide. Toer’s work fictionalizes, and comments upon, the generational divide between parents and children that was evident in 1950s Indonesian politics. We will see this political, economic, and social strife play out along the lines of this generational divide in Toer’s short stories. These changes ushered in by the young generations are seen in the areas of political leadership, societal norms, and the economic structure.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Fungleong Chan
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/17
TI  - Generational Politics in Toer’s Work
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 220
EP  - 223
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201215.426
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201215.426
ID  - Chan2020
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