Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future Exile and Prophecy in an Historical Text of Nineteenth-century Java Volume One - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future Exile and Prophecy in an Historical Text of Nineteenth-century Java Volume One write by . This book was released on 1990. Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future Exile and Prophecy in an Historical Text of Nineteenth-century Java Volume One available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future
Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future write by Nancy K. Florida. This book was released on 1995. Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Located at the juncture of literature, history, and anthropology, Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future charts a strategy of how one might read a traditional text of non-Western historical literature in order to generate, with it, an opening for the future. This book does so by taking seriously a haunting work of historical prophecy inscribed in the nineteenth century by a royal Javanese exile--working through this writing of a colonized past to suggest the reconfiguration of the postcolonial future that this history itself apparently intends. After introducing the colonial and postcolonial orientalist projects that would fix the meaning of traditional writing in Java, Nancy K. Florida provides a nuanced translation of this particular traditional history, a history composed in poetry as the dream of a mysterious exile. She then undertakes a richly textured reading of the poem that discloses how it manages to escape the fixing of "tradition." Adopting a dialogic strategy of reading, Florida writes to extend--as the work's Javanese author demands--this history's prophetic potential into a more global register. Babad Jaka Tingkir, the historical prophecy that Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future translates and reads, is uniquely suited for such a study. Composing an engaging history of the emergence of Islamic power in central Java around the turn of the sixteenth century, Babad Jaka Tingkir was written from the vantage of colonial exile to contest the more dominant dynastic historical traditions of nineteenth-century court literature. Florida reveals how this history's episodic form and focus on characters at the margins of the social order work to disrupt the genealogical claims of conventional royal historiography--thus prophetically to open the possibility of an alternative future.
Shadows of Empire
Shadows of Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shadows of Empire write by Laurie Jo Sears. This book was released on 1996. Shadows of Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shadows of Empire explores Javanese shadow theater as a staging area for negotiations between colonial power and indigenous traditions. Charting the shifting boundaries between myth and history in Javanese Mahabharata and Ramayana tales, Laurie J. Sears reveals what happens when these stories move from village performances and palace manuscripts into colonial texts and nationalist journals and, most recently, comic books and novels. Historical, anthropological, and literary in its method and insight, this work offers a dramatic reassessment of both Javanese literary/theatrical production and Dutch scholarship on Southeast Asia. Though Javanese shadow theater (wayang) has existed for hundreds of years, our knowledge of its history, performance practice, and role in Javanese society only begins with Dutch documentation and interpretation in the nineteenth century. Analyzing the Mahabharata and Ramayana tales in relation to court poetry, Islamic faith, Dutch scholarship, and nationalist journals, Sears shows how the shadow theater as we know it today must be understood as a hybrid of Javanese and Dutch ideas and interests, inseparable from a particular colonial moment. In doing so, she contributes to a re-envisioning of European histories that acknowledges the influence of Asian, African, and New World cultures on European thought--and to a rewriting of colonial and postcolonial Javanese histories that questions the boundaries and content of history and story, myth and allegory, colonialism and culture. Shadows of Empire will appeal not only to specialists in Javanese culture and historians of Indonesia, but also to a wide range of scholars in the areas of performance and literature, anthropology, Southeast Asian studies, and postcolonial studies.
Javanese Literature in Surakarta Manuscripts
Javanese Literature in Surakarta Manuscripts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Javanese Literature in Surakarta Manuscripts write by Nancy K. Florida. This book was released on 2018-08-06. Javanese Literature in Surakarta Manuscripts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Detailing the contents of the 1,204 texts inscribed in these 478 manuscripts, Nancy K. Florida's fully-indexed catalogue of Javanese-language manuscripts guides the reader through a wide range of materials.
Dissertation Abstracts International
Dissertation Abstracts International - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dissertation Abstracts International write by . This book was released on 1991. Dissertation Abstracts International available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
