Situated Testimonies

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The Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer made a distinction between a 'downstream' literary reality and an 'upstream' historical reality. Pramoedya suggested that literature has an effect on the upstream flow of history and that it can in fact change histo ry. In Situated Testimonies Laurie Sears illuminates this process by considering a selection of Dutch Indies and Indonesian literary works that span the twentieth century and beyond.