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 List of islands of Indonesia, Indonesian archipelago. It is also used to refer more broadly ...
.
This generation of writers started publishing after the
Japanese
Japanese may refer to:
* Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia
* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
* Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture
** Japanese diaspor ...
military occupation of
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...
(then called the
Dutch East Indies
The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies (; ), was a Dutch Empire, Dutch colony with territory mostly comprising the modern state of Indonesia, which Proclamation of Indonesian Independence, declared independence on 17 Au ...
) 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
Chairil Anwar (26 July 1922 – 28 April 1949) was an Indonesian poet and member of the " 1945 Generation" of writers. He is estimated to have written 96 works, including 70 individual poems.
Anwar was born and raised in Medan, North Sumatr ...
.
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Indonesian literature