Download or read book The Lontar Anthology of Indonesian Poetry written by John H. McGlynn and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lontar Anthology of Indonesian Poetry presents a wide-ranging selection of twentieth-century poetry, more than 325 poems by more than 180 authors, available for the first time in English translation. In Indonesia poetry enjoys a status far and above all other genres. Popular with the public in a way that’s unimaginable in the West, poetry is accessible through newspapers, magazines, radio, television, films and poetry readings. Major historical issues are articulated and negotiated through poetry, such as decolonization and the emergence of national consciousness, ethnic and gendered identities, and the environmental and social effects of modernization. This anthology offers a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Indonesia as seen through the lens of its poetry. As a complement to the Lontar anthologies of Indonesian drama and short stories, The Lontar Anthology of Indonesian Poetry offers the unique opportunity to explore the trajectories of a nation and its people through its poetry, which continues to act as the barometer of Indonesian literary life.
Download or read book The Self Diri written by Erica Juliani and published by Kultural 45. This book was released on 2019-03-08 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection book consists of twelve short stories by twelve Indonesian young writers. Unlike the usual publications of fiction book in Indonesia by Indonesian writers, this book was written originally in English. The reason behind this is simple; all of us, the writers and I as the editor of this book, want to offer this book to a wider readership. However, we also want Indonesian readers to be included in our reach. Therefore, this collection book of short stories is also accompanied with its Bahasa Indonesia version. The stories collected here comprise various themes and styles written brilliantly by each writer. For example, the stories titled “A disaster day”, “Walking in the wind”, “A glimmer of light”, and “Struggle, love, and dream” were written to express personal experiences. They express sadness and misery from the past but at same time they also show a glimpse of hope towards the future. In “Struggle, love, and dream”, the writer tells a story about a girl from East Java who struggles to have a better future despite difficulties she has. Monetary crisis that hit Indonesia in 1998 is used as a historical context of how the character gets her first difficulty in the story. In spite of many problems that the character has, at the end of the story, the writer gives a glimpse of brighter days for her main character. The stories in this collection are all different in theme and style but they all have one similarity. The similarity is all of them express personal experiences and thoughts. Therefore, all of the stories here are personal expression. I hope that you will enjoy reading all of the stories in this collection. Happy reading!
Download or read book Rapport and the Discursive Co Construction of Social Relations in Fieldwork Encounters written by Zane Goebel and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In accounts of ethnographic fieldwork and textbooks on ethnography, we often find the notion of rapport used to describe social relationships in the field. Frequently, rapport between researcher and researched is invoked as a prerequisite to be achieved before fieldwork can start, or used as evidence to judge the value and robustness of an ethnography. With few exceptions, and despite regular pleas to do so, ethnographers continue to avoid presenting any discursive evidence of what rapport might look like from an interactional perspective. In a sense, the uncritical acceptance of rapport as a fieldwork goal and measure has helped hide the discursive work that goes on in the field. In turn, this has privileged ideas about identity as portable rather than “portable and emergent”, and reports of social life as more important than how such reports emerge. Written for all those who engage or plan to engage in ethnographic fieldwork, this collection examines how social relationships dialogically emerge in fieldwork settings.
Download or read book The Book of Whispers written by Varujan Vosganian and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A harrowing account of the Armenian Genocide documented through the stories of those who managed to survive and descendants who refuse to forget The grandchild of Armenians who escaped widespread massacres during the Ottoman Empire a century ago, Varujan Vosganian grew up in Romania hearing firsthand accounts of those who had witnessed horrific killings, burned villages, and massive deportations. In this moving chronicle of the Armenian people's almost unimaginable tragedy, the author transforms true events into a work of fiction firmly grounded in survivor testimonies and historical documentation. Across Syrian desert refugee camps, Russian tundra, and Romanian villages, the book chronicles individual lives destroyed by ideological and authoritarian oppression. But this novel tells an even wider human story. Evocative of all the great sufferings that afflicted the twentieth century--world wars, concentration camps, common graves, statelessness, and others--this book belongs to all peoples whose voices have been lost. Hailed for its documentary value and sensitive authenticity, Vosganian's work has become an international phenomenon.
Download or read book Di Serambi On the Verandah written by Iem Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-07-28 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Di Serambi: On the Verandah, first published in 1995, brings together the work of twelve contemporary Indonesian poets. Over forty poems are presented in both Indonesian and English, together with notes on linguistic and cultural references, and a brief biography of each contributor. The poems have been selected to offer a range of chronological, thematic, and stylistic perspectives on Indonesian poetry. Iem Brown and Joan Davis travelled to Indonesia to interview the writers, providing the reader with a social context for the poetry. In their translations, they have kept faith with the oral tradition of Indonesian poetry, maintaining the rhythm and flow of the works, rather than presenting a purely literal interpretation. As a bilingual collection, this book serves those with general interest in Asian Studies as well as language students. Di Serambi: On the Verandah will prove invaluable to students and teachers of Indonesian language and culture.
Download or read book And Death Grows More Intimate written by Subagio Sastrowardoyo and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subagio Sastrowardoyo (1 February 1924 - 18 July 1995) was a poet, short-story writer, essayist, and literary critic. Born in Madiun, East Java, he first studied at Gadjah Mada University, where he then taught in the Faculty of Letters from 1958 to 1961. Thereafter, he studied at Cornell University and then at Yale University from where he graduated in 1963 with an MA in English Literature. He spent several years teaching in Australia, from 1974 to 1981. After returning to Jakarta, he served for many years as the director of Balai Pustaka, the state-owned publishing house. Subagio's debut as a writer came early with the publication of Simphoni (Symphony), a collection of poems, in 1957. Following his studies in the United States, he published a collection of poems entitled Saldju (Snow) in 1966. Critical recognition of his work first came in 1963 from the literary journal Sastra for his short story "Kejantanan di Sumbing" which was followed in 1966 by an award from Horison magazine for his poem "Dan Kematian Makin Akrab." The Indonesian government awarded him its highest prize in the field of culture (Anugerah Seni) in 1970 and he was named a recepient of the SEA Write Award from the Thai government in 1991.
Download or read book Inventing the Performing Arts written by Matthew Isaac Cohen and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indonesia, with its mix of ethnic cultures, cosmopolitan ethos, and strong national ideology, offers a useful lens for examining the intertwining of tradition and modernity in globalized Asia. In Inventing the Performing Arts, Matthew Isaac Cohen explores the profound change in diverse arts practices from the nineteenth century until 1949. He demonstrates that modern modes of transportation and communication not only brought the Dutch colony of Indonesia into the world economy, but also stimulated the emergence of new art forms and modern attitudes to art, disembedded and remoored traditions, and hybridized foreign and local. In the nineteenth century, access to novel forms of entertainment, such as the circus, and newspapers, which offered a new language of representation and criticism, wrought fundamental changes in theatrical, musical, and choreographic practices. Musical drama disseminated print literature to largely illiterate audiences starting in the 1870s, and spoken drama in the 1920s became a vehicle for exploring social issues. Twentieth-century institutions—including night fairs, the recording industry, schools, itinerant theatre, churches, cabarets, round-the-world cruises, and amusement parks—generated new ways of making, consuming, and comprehending the performing arts. Concerned over the loss of tradition and "Eastern" values, elites codified folk arts, established cultural preservation associations, and experimented in modern stagings of ancient stories. Urban nationalists excavated the past and amalgamated ethnic cultures in dramatic productions that imagined the Indonesian nation. The Japanese occupation (1942–1945) was brief but significant in cultural impact: plays, songs, and dances promoting anti-imperialism, Asian values, and war-time austerity measures were created by Indonesian intellectuals and artists in collaboration with Japanese and Korean civilian and military personnel. Artists were registered, playscripts censored, training programs developed, and a Cultural Center established. Based on more than two decades of archival study in Indonesia, Europe, and the United States, this richly detailed, meticulously researched book demonstrates that traditional and modern artistic forms were created and conceived, that is "invented," in tandem. Intended as a general historical introduction to the performing arts in Indonesia, it will be of great interest to students and scholars of Indonesian performance, Asian traditions and modernities, global arts and culture, and local heritage.
Download or read book Introduction to Old Javanese Language and Literature written by Mary S. Zurbuchen and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The oldest and most extensive written language of Southeast Asia is Old Javanese, or Kawi. It is the oldest language in terms of written records, and the most extensive in the number and variety of its texts. Javanese literature has taken many forms. At various times, prose stories, sung poetry or other metrical types, chronicles, scientific, legal, and philosophical treatises, prayers, chants, songs, and folklore were all written down. Yet relatively few texts are available in English. The unstudied texts remaining are an unexplored record of Javanese culture as well as a language still alive as a literary medium in Bali. Introduction to Old Javanese Language and Literature represents a first step toward remedying the dearth of Old Javanese texts available to English-speaking students. The ideal teaching companion, this anthology offers transliterated original texts with facing-page English translations. Theanthology focuses on prose selections, since their straightforward style and syntax offer the beginning student the most rewarding experience. Four sections make up the collection. Part I offers several short readings as the most accessible entry point into Old Javanese. Part II contains two moralistic fables from an Old Javanese retelling of the Hindu Pañcatantra cycle. Part III takes up the epic, providing excerpts from one of the books of the Old Javanese retelling of the Mahābhārata. Part IV offers excerpts from two chronicles, the generic conventions of which challenge received notions of history writing because of their supernaturalism and folkloric elements. Includes introduction, glossary, and notes.
Download or read book Insight Indonesia written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On Foreign Shores written by John H. McGlynn and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wandering written by Intan Paramaditha and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *The most unusual novel you will read all year, where you create your own story* 'An ingenious choose-your-own-adventure challenge' Lauren Elkin, Guardian Longlisted for the 2021 Stella Prize You've grown roots, you're gathering moss. You're desperate to escape your boring life teaching English in Jakarta, to go out and see the world. So you make a Faustian pact with a devil, who gives you a gift, and a warning. A pair of red shoes to take you wherever you want to go. Turn the page and make your choice. You may become a tourist or an undocumented migrant, a mother or a murderer, and you will meet other travellers with their own stories to tell. Freedom awaits but borders are real. And no story is ever new. 'Sets you free to roam the Earth... an incisive commentary on the cosmopolitan condition' Tiffany Tsao 'An electrifying novel about cosmopolitanism and global nomadism that keeps readers on their toes' Book Riot Winner of an English PEN Translates Award, and a Heim Translation Fund Grant from PEN America
Download or read book Human Rights and the Arts in Global Asia written by Theodore W. Goossen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of literary and dramatic works introduces writers from across Asia and the Asian diaspora. The landscapes and time periods it describes are rich and varied: a fishing village on the Padma River in Bangladesh in the early twentieth century, the slums of prewar Tokyo, Indonesia during the anti-leftist purge of the 1960s, and contemporary Tibet. Even more varied are the voices these works bring to life, which serve as testimony to the lives of those adversely impacted by poverty, rapid social change, political suppression, and armed conflict. In the end, the works in this anthology convey an attitude of spiritual and communal survival and even of hope. This anthology presents the complex dynamic between a diversity of Asian lives and the universalized concept of the individual “human” entitled to clearly specified “rights.” It also asks us to think about what standards of analysis we should employ when considering a historical period in which universal human rights and civil liberties are considered secondary to the collective good, as has so often been the case when nation states are undergoing revolutionary change, waging war, or championing so-called Asian values. This book’s use of the term Global Asia reflects an interest in rethinking “Asia” as more than an area determined by national borders and geography. Rather, this book portrays it as a space of movement and fluidity, where societies and individuals respond not only to their local frames of reference, but also to broader ideas and ideals.
Download or read book Menagerie written by John H. McGlynn and published by Lontar. This book was released on 1993 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As wide ranging in theme as the first volume in Lontar¿s short story series, Menagerie 2 offers readers a new and different tour of Indonesia through its literature with stories by: A.A. Navis Asrul Sani Iwan Simatupang Jujur Prananto Nh. Dini Putu Wijaya Sutardji Calzoum Bachri Toti Tjitrawasita Umar Kayam Taufiq Ismail Also included in Menagerie 2 is Pasemon: On Allusion and Illusions, a literary essay by Goenawan Mohamad; Not an End Station: The Bogor Mental Asylum, a photographic portfolio by Hidayat Surya Gautama and Erwin Hadi; and poems by Isma Sawitri, Goenawan Mohamad, Sitor Situmorang, and Sutardji Calzoum Bachri.
Download or read book Indonesia written by Gerald H. Krausse and published by Oxford, England : Clio Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation. A multidisciplinary reference of English-language publications on Indonesia. Annotated entries emphasize colonial history, the struggle for independence, the arts, and anthropology. Includes subject and title indexes. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Download or read book Indonesia a Select Reading Guide in English written by William H. Frederick and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Walking Westward in the Morning written by John H. McGlynn and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kill the Radio written by Dorothea Rosa Herliany and published by ARC Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a strongly patriarchal society in which the norms of feminine subordination are sanctified by the strictures of religion, the rage and aggression of Dorothea Herliany's poems is remarkable. This collection introduces the work of one of Indonesia's most significant writers.
