Text - Politics in Island Southeast Asia: Essays in Interpretation
How does the language of poetry conspire with the language of power? This question is at the heart of this volume which deals with Indonesia and the Philippines in the early modern and post-1945 periods. These two nations have been shaped by the forces of nationalism, revolution, and metropolitan hegemony. Whether written in Malay, Tagalog, English, or Dutch the writings coming from them carry the contradictions of their time and place in the milieu of race and class. The contributors examine...
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How does the language of poetry conspire with the language of power? This question is at the heart of this volume which deals with Indonesia and the Philippines in the early modern and post-1945 periods. These two nations have been shaped by the forces of nationalism, revolution, and metropolitan hegemony. Whether written in Malay, Tagalog, English, or Dutch the writings coming from them carry the contradictions of their time and place in the milieu of race and class. The contributors examine the literature and politics of Indonesia and the Philippines from the point of view of contemporary thinking. Their examinations include the responses of indigenous writers to censorship and to their marginalization and cooption by colonial and neocolonial states. They investigate the rhetoric of spectacle in the Philippines of Ferdinand Marcos, the function of pasyon in Tagalog religious narrative, the writings of Pramoedya Ananta Toer in Indonesia, and the memoirs of a Javanese aristocrat. This book will be of interest to colonial historians and to students and scholars of non-Western and comparative literature.BooknewsContributors examine the literature and politics of Indonesia and the Philippines from a contemporary perspective, investigating such topics as the responses of indigenous writers to censorship and to their marginalization; the rhetoric of spectacle in the Philippines of Ferdinand Marcos; the function of pasyon in Tagalog religious narrative; the writings of Pramoedya Ananta Toer in Indonesia; and the memoirs of a Javanese aristocrat. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
IllustrationsAcknowledgments1Permission, Voice, and Silence: Inscriptions of Authority12Patronage and Pornography: Ideology and Spectatorship During the Early Marcos Years493The Christ Story as the Subversive Memory of Tradition: Tagalog Texts and Politics Around the Turn of the Century824On the Anvil: Realism and Revolution in a Contemporary Philippines Novelist1115Boredom in Batavia: A Catalogue of Books in 18981316The Metamorphosis of a Javanese Aristocrat: The Memoirs of Pangeran Achmad Djadjadiningrat1577The Early Fiction of Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 1946-19491918Literature, Cultural Politics, and the Indonesian Revolution2219Writing the Past: The Limits of Realism in Contemporary Indonesian Literature25710Interpreting the Indonesian National Character: Mochtar Lubis and Manusia Indonesia288
\ BooknewsContributors examine the literature and politics of Indonesia and the Philippines from a contemporary perspective, investigating such topics as the responses of indigenous writers to censorship and to their marginalization; the rhetoric of spectacle in the Philippines of Ferdinand Marcos; the function of pasyon in Tagalog religious narrative; the writings of Pramoedya Ananta Toer in Indonesia; and the memoirs of a Javanese aristocrat. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
