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A Nederlander Woman's Recollections of Colonial and Wartime Sumatra: From Sawahlunto to Bangkinang Internment Camp

Author
Rodgers, Susan
Abstract
Eurasian communities in the Dutch East Indies took variant forms throughout the colony, many of which remain largely unexplored. This article draws upon a May, 2004, life history interview with Gerdy Ungerer (now a Californian, but born in 1928 to Eurasian parents in a West Sumatran coal mining town). She describes her secure, even privileged early childhood in Sawahlunto and then remembers its aftermath: World War II years in a harsh Japanese internment camp with other Sawahlunto Nederlanders. Her memoir raises the question: How do persons of mixed-race heritage in the Indies construct their identities today via childhood autobiography?
Journal/Series
Indonesia
Volume & Issue:
Vol. 79
Description
Page range: 93-129
Date Issued
2005-04Publisher
Cornell University Southeast Asia Program
Type
article