| Description |
viii, 381 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 202 |
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Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 202
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| Contents |
Postcolonial readings of modern Indonesian literature: introductory remarks -- Popular literature and postcolonial subjectivities: Robinson Crusoe, the Count of Monte Cristo and Sherlock Holmes in colonial Indonesia -- Love in a time of colonialism: race and romance in an early Indonesian novel -- Stammer and the creaking door: the Malay writings of Pramoedya Ananta Toer -- Dissolving into the elsewhere: mimicry and ambivalence in Marah Roesli's 'Sitti Noerbaja' -- Indo as other: identity, anxiety and ambiguity in 'Salah asoehan' -- Postcoloniality and the feminine in modern Indonesian literature -- Forgetting: poetry and the nation, a motif in Indonesian literary modernism after 1945 -- Between eating and shitting: figures of intimacy, storytelling and isolation in some early tales by Pramoedya Ananta Toer -- In the margin of the capital: from 'Tjerita Boedjang Bingoeng's to 'Si Doel anak sekolahan' -- 'Smells of something like postmodernism': Emha Ainun Nadjib's rewritting of the Mahabharata -- Satuan-satuan kecil and uncomfortable improvisations in the late night of the New Order: democratization, postmodernism and postcoloniality -- Sastra pedalaman: local and regional literary centres in Indonesia -- 'Durga Umayi' and the postcolonialist dilemma |
| Summary |
Papers delivered at a workshop on 'Postcoloniality and the Question of Modern Indonesian Literature' in May 1998 at University of Sydney |
| Notes |
Papers delivered at a conference in May 1998 at University of Sydney |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde no:202 |
| Subject |
Postcolonialism -- Indonesia.
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Indonesian literature -- History and criticism.
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Indonesian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Postcolonialism -- Congresses.
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Postcolonialism in literature -- Congresses.
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Postcolonialism -- Indonesia -- Congresses.
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Indonesian literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Indonesian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Foulcher, Keith.
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Day, T. (Tony)
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Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Netherlands)
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| LC no. |
2003475442 |
| ISBN |
9067181897 |
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