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Menggarami burung terbang: Local understandings of national history

Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde, 2011, Vol.167 (1), p.1-15 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2011 Pamela Allen ;2011 Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ;COPYRIGHT 2011 Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies ;Copyright KITLV, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies 2011 ;ISSN: 0006-2294 ;EISSN: 2213-4379 ;DOI: 10.1163/22134379-90003599

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Title:
Menggarami burung terbang: Local understandings of national history
Author: Allen, Pamela
Subjects: 20th century ; Asian history ; Communism ; Communist parties ; Communists ; Coup d'Etat ; Coups d'etat ; Fiction ; Gurus ; Humanities ; Indonesia ; Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) ; Java ; Javanese ; Literary criticism ; Malay ; National history ; Novelists ; Novels ; Peasant class ; Poetry ; Political crises ; Political factors ; Revolution ; Social perception ; Social sciences ; South Asian studies ; Southeast Asian culture ; Southeast Asian literature ; Srengenge, Sitok ; Violence ; Watersheds
Is Part Of: Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde, 2011, Vol.167 (1), p.1-15
Description: This paper focuses on the ways in which watershed events in Indonesian national history are illuminated in a work of fiction, and how a Javanese worldview gives rise to particular, localized understandings of the events. The work of fiction is Sitok Srengenge's first novel, Menggarami burung terbang (Seasoning the flying bird), the action of which is bracketed by the years 1948 and 1965. The protagonists of the novel are unassuming village folk who are bewildered at the political events and mass brutality that overtake them, and whose understanding of the world is filtered through natural omens. Such a worldview is described by Quinn (1992:124) as a 'teleological' view of phenomena, in other words a belief that everything that exists and happens - including natural omens - does so for a final purpose, that there is a reason for everything.
Publisher: Netherlands: Brill
Language: English;Dutch
Identifier: ISSN: 0006-2294
EISSN: 2213-4379
DOI: 10.1163/22134379-90003599
Source: AUTh Library subscriptions: ProQuest Central
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