Durga/Umayi : a novel
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Durga/Umayi : a novel
University of Washington Press , in association with Singapore University Press, c2004
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Durga Umayi
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Durga Umayi
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアジア専攻
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Novel
Translated from Indonesian
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-212)
Description and Table of Contents
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: [U.S.] ISBN 9780295983929
Description
This scathingly satirical and hilarious novel, first published in Indonesia in 1991, affords both a blithely irreverent overview of Indonesian history in the Sukarno and Suharto eras and brilliant insights into the postcolonial condition.
The story begins in the 1930s, before Indonesia's independence from Dutch rule, and follows the fortunes of a poor Javanese village woman who becomes a servant in the household of President Sukarno. In a world where speaking truth to power really has no point, she learns the arts of accommodation and does very well for herself. The price she pays is the loss of her identity, her connection to her kin and origins, and her moral standing. Framed by the world of ritual shadow plays - the realm of witches like Durga and the goddess Umayi - Mangunwijaya's novel gives an unblinking but remarkably compassionate account of people caught up in the great nationalist maelstrom of Indonesia's recent history.
Table of Contents
Translator's Introduction
Acknowledgments
Durga / Umayi
About the Author
Translator's Notes
Afterword: Mangunwijaya as Novelist/Puppeteer
Further Reading
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: [Singapore] ISBN 9789971692971
Description
The novel is a scating satire, but aviods romanticising the masses as timelessly patient or as heroically resistant; instead it gives readers an unblinking and remarkably forgiving account of the ethical compromises that contemporary Indonesians maust constantly make.
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