Author: Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501719017
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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A translation of short stories by the well-known Indonesian author, Pramoedya Ananta Toer. Written in the 1950s, these stories are intensely regional in flavor and modern in approach. This collection includes such works as "Stranded Fish," "Creatures Behind Houses," and the great "Ketjapi."
Author: Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Publisher: SEAP Publications
ISBN: 9780877277262
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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Houseboy + Maid -- News from Kebajoran -- Stranded fish -- My Kampung -- Maman and his world -- Gambir -- Miscarriage of a would-be playwright -- House -- Creatures behind houses -- No resolution -- The mastermind -- Mrs. Veterinary Doctor Suharko -- Ketjapi.
Author: Rudolf Mrázek
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822392682
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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A Certain Age is an unconventional, evocative work of history and a moving reflection on memory, modernity, space, time, and the limitations of traditional historical narratives. Rudolf Mrázek visited Indonesia throughout the 1990s, recording lengthy interviews with elderly intellectuals in and around Jakarta. With few exceptions, they were part of an urban elite born under colonial rule and educated at Dutch schools. From the early twentieth century, through the late colonial era, the national revolution, and well into independence after 1945, these intellectuals injected their ideas of modernity, progress, and freedom into local and national discussion. When Mrázek began his interviews, he expected to discuss phenomena such as the transition from colonialism to postcolonialism. His interviewees, however, wanted to share more personal recollections. Mrázek illuminates their stories of the past with evocative depictions of their late-twentieth-century surroundings. He brings to bear insights from thinkers including Walter Benjamin, Bertold Brecht, Le Corbusier, and Marcel Proust, and from his youth in Prague, another metropolis with its own experience of passages and revolution. Architectural and spatial tropes organize the book. Thresholds, windowsills, and sidewalks come to seem more apt as descriptors of historical transitions than colonial and postcolonial, or modern and postmodern. Asphalt roads, homes, classrooms, fences, and windows organize movement, perceptions, and selves in relation to others. A Certain Age is a portal into questions about how the past informs the present and how historical accounts are inevitably partial and incomplete.
Author: Ayu Utami
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
ISBN: 9793780118
Category : Indonesian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Saman is a story filtered through the lives of its feisty female protagonists and the enigmatic "hero" Saman. It is at once an exposé of the oppression of plantation workers in South Sumatra, a lyrical quest to understand the place of religion and spirituality in contemporary lives, a playful exploration of female sexuality and a story about love in all its guises, while touching on all of Indonesia's taboos: extramarital sex, political repression and the relationship between Christians and Muslims. Saman has taken the Indonesian literary world by storm and sold over 100,000 copies in the Indonesian language, and is now available for the first time in English. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ayu Utami was born in Bogor, grew up in Jakarta and obtained her bachelor degree in Literature Studies from University of Indonesia. She worked as a journalist for Matra, Forum Keadilan, and D&R. Not long after the New Order regime closed Tempo, Editor, and Detik, she participated in the founding of Indonesia's Alliance of Independent Journalists to protest the closure of those three weeklys. Currently she is working for the cultural journal Kalam, and at Teater Utan Kayu. Saman was awarded the Prince Claus Award in the year 2000.
Author: Alice M. Terada
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824816544
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Hundreds of language and cultural groups, each with its own myths and legends, make Indonesia a rich source of stories. Selected to give young readers an understanding of the Indonesian people through their folklore, 29 tales reveal the islands from Sumatra to Irian.
Author: Adrian Vickers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107019478
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
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This updated edition examines the rise of fundamentalist Islam in Indonesia and asks why the country's democratic aspirations have yet to be realized.
Author: Rolf Knight
Publisher: Draegerman
ISBN:
Category : Communism and literature
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Author: Marie Diamond
Publisher: Infobase Holdings, Inc
ISBN: 1646930037
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 638
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In recent years, schools have started introducing more inclusive syllabi emphasizing the works and ideas of previously overlooked or underrepresented writers. Readers of all ages can now explore the rich contributions of writers from around the world. These writers have various backgrounds, and unlike most writers from the U.S. or the United Kingdom, information on them in English can be difficult to find. Encyclopedia of World Writers: 1800 to the Present covers the most important writers outside of the U.S., Britain, and Ireland since 1800. More than 330 insightful, A-to-Z entries profile novelists, poets, dramatists, and short-story writers whose works are anthologized in textbooks or assigned in high school English classes. Entries range in length from 200 to 1,000 words each and include a biographical sketch, synopses of major works, and a brief bibliography. Dozens of entries are new to this edition and many existing entries have been updated and significantly expanded with new "Critical Analysis" sections. Coverage includes: Chinua Achebe Margaret Atwood Roberto Bolaño Albert Camus Khalid Hosseini Victor Hugo Mohammad Iqbal Franz Kafka Stieg Larsson Mario Vargas Llosa Naghib Mahfouz Gabriel García Márquez Kenzaburo Oe Marcel Proust Leo Tolstoy Emile Zola and more.
Author: Razif Bahari
Publisher: NIE Malay Collective
ISBN: 9793790180
Category : Indonesian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Category : Indonesia
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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