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Pramoedya Postcolonially investigates some cardinal questions about the construction of nation, history and identity—questions which are relevant not only when broad cultural issues like colonial situations and colonial semiosis are being considered but also when more specific issues like race, gender and class are being taken into account. Razif Bahari provides a study of the ways in which Indonesia's most well- known novelist, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, wrestles with these issues in his writings. Focusing on Pramoedya's Buru tetralogy which assumes a variety of positions on the issues of national identity, history and gender, Razif takes an incisive look at how the material nature of colonial exploitation informs the ways we constitute culture, subjectivity and the language that is their medium. Razif examines the way the tetralogy deals with disparate concepts of the nation, perceptions of historical experience, and attitudes to questions of language and gender as they are held and contested by different social groups, placing his reading in the historical, social and material contexts of Dutch colonial rule and internal colonialism by Javanese feudalism in Indonesia at the turn of the twentieth century.
Pramoedya Postcolonially would be of interest not only to students, teachers and critics of Indonesian literature, but to those outside of Indonesian studies who study colonial historio- graphy, cultural history, and literary criticism. This is a multi-layered and interdisciplinary study that brings together scholarly conversations on postcolonial studies, ethnography and cultural criticism, and the study of the role of narrative in Indonesian history.
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Author: Razif Bahari
Paperback: 267 pages
Publisher: Pustaka Larasan (August 23, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN: 978-9793790183
Product Dimensions: 21.5 x 14.5 x 1.3 cm
Shipping Weight: 350 grams
Price: $29.99 & this item ships for FREE
Kilat Senja—Sejarah Sosial dan Budaya Kampung-kampung di Singapura (Glimmering Sunset—Social and Cultural History of Kampungs in Singapore)
