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

dc.contributor.authorRodgers, Susan
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-10T14:28:04Z
dc.date.available2017-11-10T14:28:04Z
dc.date.issued2005-04
dc.descriptionPage range: 93-129
dc.description.abstractEurasian 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?
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/54346
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherCornell University Southeast Asia Program
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIndonesia
dc.titleA Nederlander Woman's Recollections of Colonial and Wartime Sumatra: From Sawahlunto to Bangkinang Internment Camp
dc.typearticle
schema.issueNumberVol. 79

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