This article reads three of Triyanto Triwikromo\u2019s Semarang-set short stories\u2014\u2019Zikir Walik Jagipeken [Jagipeken Back Dhikr]\u2019 (2013), \u2018Penguburan Kembali Sitaresmi [The Reburial of Sitaresmi]\u2019 (2015), and \u2018Bunga Busuk [The Rotten Flower]\u2019 (2012)\u2014as decolonial urban palimpsests negotiating the afterlives of colonialism and the 1965\u201366 mass killings. Our objectives are to show how the stories re-map Semarang\u2019s sites as layered archives of violence and resistance, to identify narrative strategies (haunting, fragmentation, temporal and spatial dislocation) through which counter-memories emerge, and to refine the \u2018decolonial urban palimpsest\u2019 as a lens for literary responses to state violence. Guided by Quijano\u2019s coloniality of power, we combine close reading of voice, spectrality, temporality, spatialisation, and toponyms with grounded contextualisation. We demonstrate how the texts enact a counter-cartography that unsettles official narratives of modernisation and closure, while exposing racialised, classed, and gendered hierarchies that persist in post-independence memory regimes. The article contributes empirically by situating Semarang\u2019s contested memoryscape within colonial and Cold War genealogies; methodologically by operationalising decolonial reading through site-attentive textual analysis; and conceptually by proposing a portable framework for reading urban traces as counter-archives. Future research could extend this approach to other Indonesian cities and media, and examine how genres negotiate censorship and regimes of remembrance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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