Situated Testimonies : : Dread and Enchantment in an Indonesian Literary Archive / / Laurie J. Sears.
The Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer made a distinction between a "downstream" literary reality and an "upstream" historical reality. Pramoedya suggested that literature has an effect on the upstream flow of history and that it can in fact change history. In Situated Testi...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 10 illus., 1 map |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Conventions
- Selected Timeline of Indies and Indonesian Histories
- Introduction: The Afterwardsness of History
- Chapter 1. Desire, Phantoms, and Commodities: Maria Dermoût's Colonial Critique
- Chapter 2. At Home and Not at Home in Empire: Transnational Phantasies of Colonial Modernity
- Chapter 3. A Neurotic Family Romance of Modernity and the National Form
- Chapter 4. The End of the Nationalist Romance
- Chapter 5. Trauma and Its Doubles in Postcolonial Masculinity
- Chapter 6. Masculinist Trauma and Feminist Melancholia
- Afterword: Trauma, Translation, and a Critical Path
- Notes
- Glossary
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author