%0 Journal Article
%T From the Mouths of Babes: Children in Recent Indonesian Film and Fiction
%A Pamela Allen
%J K@ta : a Biannual Publication on the Study of Language and Literature
%D 2011
%I Petra Christian University
%X A noticeable trend in recent Indonesian fiction and film has been the use of children as protagonists. This paper examines the role of children in Andrea Hirata¡¯s 2005 novel Laskar Pelangi (Rainbow Warriors) and the 2006 film Denias, directed by John de Rantau. I argue that, like the German Bildungsromane, these texts belong to a genre that might be called ¡®coming of age¡¯ or quest narratives. And yet, importantly, they are not just about the personal experience of finding one¡¯s place in the world; the young protagonists of these texts also carry the weight of nation-building on their slender shoulders. The texts are not, therefore, simple derivations from European Bildungsromane, but are shaped by colonialism and globalization
%K Indonesian fiction
%K Indonesian film
%K children
%K Bildungsromant
%K quest narratives
%U http://puslit2.petra.ac.id/ejournal/index.php/ing/article/view/18378