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Sundanese print culture and modernity in nineteenth century West Java.

Title
Sundanese print culture and modernity in nineteenth century West Java.
Author
Moriyama, Mikihiro
Publication
Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2005

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Description
287 p.
Summary
"Sundanese Print Culture traces the development of modern printed books written in Sundanese, the dominant language in West Java, Indonesia, and the mother tongue of about 30 million people. Starting with the 'discovery' of Sundanese by Europeans in the early 19th century, Mikihiro Moriyama follows the developments in the ensuing century when a small group of Dutch scholars and colonial officials reshaped the language and its literature over the next one hundred years. Schools taught Sundanese, and printed materials based on western concepts began of influence indigenous writing and oral tradition."--BOOK JACKET.
Alternative Title
Sundanese print culture and modernity in 19th-century West Java
Subject
  • 1800-1899
  • Geschichte 1850-1930
  • Literacy > Indonesia
  • Education > Indonesia
  • Sundanese literature > 19th century > History and criticism
  • Printing > Indonesia > Jawa Barat > History > 19th century
  • Sundanese (Indonesian people) > Indonesia > Jawa Barat > Intellectual life
  • Publishers and publishing > Indonesia > History > 19th century
Genre/Form
  • History
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-281) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. Inventing a language and literature -- 2. The institutional context -- 3. The birth of the author : Moehamad Moesa -- 4. Reading modernity in Wawacan Panji Wulung -- 5. The change in the configuration -- App. 1. List of Sundanese printed books before 1908 -- App. 2. Wawacan Panji Wulung.
ISBN
9971693224
OCLC
  • 60856358
  • SCSB-12004412
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library