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Clearing a space : postcolonial readings of modern Indonesian literature / edited by Keith Foulcher and Tony Day.

Title
Clearing a space : postcolonial readings of modern Indonesian literature / edited by Keith Foulcher and Tony Day.
Publication
Leiden : KITLV Press, 2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Foulcher, Keith
  • Day, Tony
Description
viii, 381 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
Papers delivered at a workshop on 'Postcoloniality and the Question of Modern Indonesian Literature' in May 1998 at University of Sydney.
Series Statement
Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 202
Uniform Title
Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 202.
Alternative Title
Postcolonial readings of modern Indonesian literature
Subject
  • Indonesian literature > History and criticism > Congresses
  • Postcolonialism > Indonesia > Congresses
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Note
  • Papers delivered at a conference in May 1998 at University of Sydney.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
9067181897
OCLC
  • 51857766
  • SCSB-9958751
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library