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Waxing into words: Virginia Woolf and the Westminster Abbey funeral effigies by Kore Schroder, Leena

“…These effigies make official history disturbingly strange even as they appeal to us at the level of bodily familiarity. …”
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Writing against history, in the Novel Without a Name and The Disappeared by Jabarouti, Roya, Mani, Manimangai

“…Nevertheless, what they illustrate is not the official history, but the private memories of the past. …”
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The Uses Of Memoirs And Oral History Works In Researching The 1965–1966 Political Violence In Indonesia by Hearman, Vannessa

“…Since the end of Suharto's rule in 1998, Indonesia's official history has been contested, especially by former political prisoners from the 1965 period, who had previously been regarded as the regime's enemies. …”
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Australia at war and peace by Summers, Sue, Oliver, Bobbie

“…Despite monumental official histories of Australia’s involvement in the World Wars, scholarly and personal accounts of combatants, and revisionist studies of Australia’s military record, many gaps in the history remain. …”
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Capturing the Reverberations of the 1965–66 Killings in the Balinese Landscape: The Artistic Work of Leyla Stevens by Hearman, Vannessa

“…In her award-winning work, Dua Dunia (two worlds), the diasporic artist demonstrates the persistence of memory and the indispensability of 'talk' in recounting the story of a place that is not recorded in official histories. By using a dialogue created between two women speaking of the Balinese landscape and its relationship with history, performed in a kidung, a poem recited in song, Stevens suggests that the oral transmission of history, no matter how faltering, can open up new ways of remembering. …”
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The anatomy of controversial history in Indonesia by Ahmad, Tsabit Azinar

“…The surge in controversial history on Indonesian historiography is worth critical scrutiny.Some of the most turbulent events including Serangan Umum Satu Maret (1 March Attack) of 1949, Gerakan 30 September (30 September Movement) of 1965, Surat Perintah Sebelas Maret (11 March Instruction) of 1966 and Indonesian killings after 1965 had caused immense unease in social-political role of Indonesian armed forces and human rights violations.Within the turmoil, the vast majority of society suffered from growing tension and confusion.For that reason, this paper meticulously analyzes the anatomy of controversial history, defined as several versions of writing, in Indonesia.In this regard, an issue is deemed controversial when personal, communal, and political interest evokes emotional engagement.In historiography, there are two causal factors namely methodological mistake and sociopolitical interest.They result in, furthermore, two main characteristics.The first type is academic controversial history with varied historians’ interpretation on the investigated sources.The second type revolves around sociopolitical controversial of which natures are personal, social, cultural and political.It is deeply rooted in conflict of interests associated with individuals or community.Far too often, some of them were the perpetrators or stakeholders who exercise power to legitimate their domination in history.The relationship between knowledge and power can be best illustrated by the publication of the official history and the prohibited alternatives.To my view, such sociopolitical controversies would inevitably ignite debates in wider society.…”
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