However, Leila Chudori herself falls into another form of fashion: her Paris is arty and trendy, but no less artificial. The obligatory silence about the violence and the preceding political struggles and debates had resulted in a cultural veil concerning the past and critical tools for assessing it. Pink Floyd — Mother. This document is currently being converted. In this chapter I demonstrate how recent novels by two contemporary writers—Leila Chudori and Laksmi Pamuntjak—contribute to the experience of recalling and imagining that time of violence and to integrating it into modern conceptions of Indonesian society and nation.
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