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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (3): 1125–1126.
Published: 01 August 2002
...Linda K. Yoder BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 1125 Tales from Djakarta: Caricatures of Circumstances and their Human Beings. By PRAMOEDYA A N A N T A T O E R . Ithaca: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University. 1999. 145 pp. $15.00 (paper). To open a dog-eared photocopy of the 1957 collection...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (3): 1126–1128.
Published: 01 August 2002
... in footnotes. Mohamad's foreword is provocative. "Pramoedya Ananta Toer's stories are forceful pieces of writing in which the beginning is not the word. . . . [They are] written with ideas, not with words" (p. 9). He warns about the misleading ease of translating the semantic content, because Pramoedya's prose...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 1165–1166.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., and the speeches of Soekarno. Here Sears attempts to chart the tensions of neurotic family relations, the romance of revolution, modernity, and the desire for particular kinds of nation. Chapters 5 and 6 provide readings of Pramoedya Ananta Toer's Rumah kaca ( House of glass , 1988) and Ayu Utami's Saman (1998...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (2): 632–633.
Published: 01 May 1994
... in authoritarian societies generally? In the 1980s, Pramoedya Ananta Toer's books were published, sold openly for months, and then recalled. Are Indonesian censors really so dim that it takes them ages to catch on? A second level of the debate concerns "cultures." Here, "the construction of cultures" is a most...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (1): 263–264.
Published: 01 February 1995
...; and strategic formation the referential quality a text bears to the larger culture. Literature, then, is "an agency of change as well as a repository of knowledge." By way of illustration, half of this introductory essay illuminates the context of Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere and Pramoedya Ananta Toer's Rumak...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (2): 588–590.
Published: 01 May 2007
... was by no means total in Indonesia during the 1965–98 New Order regime of former President Soeharto. As is well known, the novelist Pramoedya Ananta Toer was imprisoned on Buru Island during many years of this period. The central government's conceptualization of the nation's “ethnic arts” as tourist trinkets...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (3): 619–645.
Published: 01 August 2024
... the Woman Question in the French Third Republic, 1870–1920 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Office of the Chief of Naval Operations . 1944 . Civil Affairs Handbook: Taiwan (Formosa), Takao Province, OPNAV 13–22 . Washington, DC : Naval Civil Affairs Publications . Pramoedya Ananta...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (2): 633–635.
Published: 01 May 2011
... Picabia, “in seeking a rebus where there is only vision.” 2 Karen Strassler did not make this error. She hardly could, because she wrote the book as a scholar and photographer in one. Strassler heeds Pramoedya Ananta Toer's words that “demonstration is part of inhabiting” (p. xiv). She, indeed, gets...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (1): 262–263.
Published: 01 February 1995
... as a repository of knowledge." By way of illustration, half of this introductory essay illuminates the context of Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere and Pramoedya Ananta Toer's Rumak Kaca. Citing Walter Benjamin, Roskies notes that such works have a "revolutionary use value" derived from raising a "skeptical mirror...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (4): 884–885.
Published: 01 August 1985
... ASIA 885 still holding strongly to its traditional Buddhist beliefs, of a rich country full of poor people" (p. 125). E. U. Kratz, who considers the Indonesian short story as denned today to have emerged only after 1945, traces the influence of institutions, individuals such as Pramoedya Ananta Toer...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (4): 1079–1080.
Published: 01 November 1996
... of these two narratives to the near-contemporary childhood memoirs of other Sumatrans. (Nur Sutan Iskandar and Hamka), to the chronologically more remote memoirs of Javanese (Dr. Soetomo and Ruslan Abdulgani), and to the autobiographically inspired early fictional work of Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Stories from...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (2): 463–464.
Published: 01 February 1985
.... $9 (paper). ' The four stories translated in this collection are of interest not only for their literary merit but also for the perspectives they provide on the politics and culture of Indonesia during two periods of crisis. Two of the stories Pramoedya Ananta Toer's "Dia Yang Menyerah" (translated...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (2): 631–632.
Published: 01 May 1994
... expression in politics as it is more narrowly defined. One wonders: is this a particularly Indonesian subtlety and indirection? Or is it a subterfuge practiced by the opposition in authoritarian societies generally? In the 1980s, Pramoedya Ananta Toer's books were published, sold openly for months...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (2): 633–634.
Published: 01 May 1994
... concerns equally, as a totality they paint a subtle and dynamic picture of culture change. Keith Foulcher's description of fiction traces the development of realism (through Pramoedya Ananta Toer), antirealism (through Danarto and Putu Wijaya), and the emergence of women's voices (through Nh. Dini...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 42 (2): 458–459.
Published: 01 February 1983
...); population pressure and looming food problems, especially on Java and Bali; "the curious and costly campaign," in McDonald's terms, "to capture the tiny former Portuguese colony of East Timor"; and a report on political prisoners, including an apparently uncensored interview McDonald held with Pramoedya...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (3): 708–709.
Published: 01 August 1988
... 708 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES (1984) on the early development of the popular vernacular press; and Takashi Shiraishi (1986), the definitive study of the popular movement in Surakarta between 1900 and 1926 to say nothing of Pramoedya Ananta Toer's extraordinary biography of R. M. Tirtoadisoerjo...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (3): 707–708.
Published: 01 August 1988
... THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES (1984) on the early development of the popular vernacular press; and Takashi Shiraishi (1986), the definitive study of the popular movement in Surakarta between 1900 and 1926 to say nothing of Pramoedya Ananta Toer's extraordinary biography of R. M. Tirtoadisoerjo, Sang Pemula...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (2): 464–465.
Published: 01 February 1985
... on the politics and culture of Indonesia during two periods of crisis. Two of the stories Pramoedya Ananta Toer's "Dia Yang Menyerah" (translated by William Frederick as 'Acceptance") and a lesswell-known story by S. Rukiah Kertapati entitled 'An Affair of the Heart" (translated by John McGlynn) take place...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 43 (2): 247–272.
Published: 01 February 1984
.... Dreyfuss , and Djoehana Oka . 1979 . “ A New Kind of Language Hybrid? ” Pacific Linguistics (series A), no. 57 : 247 –74. Ferguson C. A. 1959 . “ Diglossia .” Word 15 : 325 –40. Francis G. 1982 . “Tjerita Njai Dasima.” In Tempo Doeloe , ed. Toer Pramoedya Ananta , 223 –46...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (3): 690–692.
Published: 01 August 1990
... definition of a philologist, "a person whose work it is to bridge the gap between a modern reader and a distant text" (p. 1). Benedict Anderson translates Pramoedya's story "Revenge," and includes copious notes on historical/political context and the meanings of words. His method is to review European...
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