Narrative Of The Other In Indonesian Chinese Literature Since The End Of 1970's

From the narrative of 'the other' we can always realize the feeling and desire of the subject. In the ethnic group-construction process of Indonesian Chinese, "Indonesian aborigines" are more important since the end of the 1970's. I will analyze the narrative of 'the other' (aborigines) in Indonesian Chinese Literature, from which we can find the status of Indonesian Chinese at that time.On one hand, because the stress from racial politics still exists, as a minority, Indonesian Chinese are puzzled about their ethnic characteristic and indigenous characteristic. On the other hand, in the course of urbanization, as businessmen in the city, they are also troubled with the conflict between tradition and modernization. So when 'the other' becomes a symbol of Indonesia, the narrative is a literary action to relieve the stress from politics. And when 'the other' becomes a mirror of their urban condition, it is a poetic imagination of "tradition and past". In the first discourse, we can find that Indonesian Chinese have prejudice against aborigines and have superior complex. At the same time, their literary creation is confined as it has been burdened with so much politics pressure. On the other hand, in the second discourse, in some extent they underscore themselves identification with the aborigines and their tendency to self-questioning. And they reveal their open mind and willingness for dialogue.From the two kinds of narrative, we can feel that Indonesia Chinese 's strong volition of self- construction and complicated mentality during the double spallation of modernization and localization.