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From the Mouths of Babes: Children in Recent Indonesian Film and Fiction

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posted on 2023-05-17, 11:31 authored by Pamela AllenPamela Allen
A noticeable trend in recent Indonesian fiction and film has been the use of children as protagonists. This paper examines the role of children in Andrea Hirata’s 2005 novel Laskar Pelangi (Rainbow Warriors) and the 2006 film Denias, directed by John de Rantau. I argue that, like the German Bildungsromane, these texts belong to a genre that might be called ‘coming of age’ or quest narratives. And yet, importantly, they are not just about the personal experience of finding one’s place in the world; the young protagonists of these texts also carry the weight of nation-building on their slender shoulders. The texts are not, therefore, simple derivations from European Bildungsromane, but are shaped by colonialism and globalization

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Publication title

K@ta

Volume

13

Pagination

179-187

ISSN

1411-2639

Department/School

School of Humanities

Publisher

English Department, Faculty of Letters, Petra Christian University, Surabaya, Indonesia

Place of publication

Surabaya, Indonesia

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Copyright 2011 Universitas Kristen Petra

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