Literature, history, and neuroscience perspective toward urban family disorganization during indonesian revolution era 1945-1949

Some of the events of the Indonesian revolution (1945-1949) were not written by historians but were written in the form of historical novels. Individual behavior in this era can be explained through a neuropsychological perspective that tells details about the mental and cognitive effects of individuals. Historiography and content analyses were employed to analyze data. Historiography describes historians’ point of view about the Indonesian revolution and its impacts on urban family, while content analysis portrays urban family in the novels of Guerrilla Family. Historians and novelists shared different attentions in their texts since historians focused on revolutionary impacts toward Sultanates’ collapse in East Sumatera and inactivity of aristocratic family privileges in society, while novelists emphasized the story of a lower-class metropolitan family in that era. In detail, the novel elaborates on a generational conflict between the young and old generation of urban families during the Indonesian physical revolution. Furthermore, the novel also implied public anxiety in Jakarta due to the uncontrolled social process, which filled with chaotic, criminals, oppression, and betrayal. On the other hand, the novel portrays a disorganized-urban family, particularly in terms of economic, family conflict, feminism and patriarchy issues, as well as infidelity and its social punishment.