The 1945 Generation was a period in
Indonesian literature
Indonesian literature is a term grouping various genres of South-East Asian literature.
Indonesian literature can refer to literature produced in the Indonesian archipelago. It is also used to refer more broadly to literature produced in areas ...
.
This generation of writers was born after the
Japanese military occupation of
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...
(then called the
Dutch East Indies
The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies ( nl, Nederlands(ch)-Indië; ), was a Dutch colony consisting of what is now Indonesia. It was formed from the nationalised trading posts of the Dutch East India Company, which ...
) in 1942-45.
Their writing is considered to have been a rejection of the servile literature on the Japanese government in Indonesia and those few writers who were members of the ''Bunka Keimin Shidosho'', considered by them to have been lackeys of Imperial Japan.
A popular writer of the 1945 Generation was
Chairil Anwar.
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Indonesian literature