Abstract
Papuan Mamas exemplify the use of storytelling and popular expressive traditions of resistance to totalitarian systems. Living with laughter and resilience within a reality termed by some as genocidal since Indonesia’s takeover in 1962, Papuan Mamas carry and reproduce Papuan identity. Through their use of stories, they model how to resist annihilative violence and to practice what Vizenor (1993) termed “survivance” to create and exist in a freedom made real through communal dreaming.
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Smythe, Julian
(2024)
"The Strength of the Papuan Mamas: Storytelling as Resistance to Violence, Dehumanization, and Silencing, and for Communal Dreaming,"
Storytelling, Self, Society: Vol. 18:
Iss.
2, Article 1.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/storytelling/vol18/iss2/1