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Cosmopolitanism, Nation, and the Urban-Rural Split in the Novels of Ayu Utami

Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde, 2016-01, Vol.172 (4), p.421-448 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright 2016 by Michael H. Bodden ;2016 authors ;COPYRIGHT 2016 Brill Academic Publishers, Inc. ;Copyright Koninklijke Brill NV 2016 ;ISSN: 0006-2294 ;EISSN: 2213-4379 ;DOI: 10.1163/22134379-17204004

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Title:
Cosmopolitanism, Nation, and the Urban-Rural Split in the Novels of Ayu Utami
Author: Bodden, Michael H
Subjects: Analysis ; Attention ; Capitalism ; Cosmopolitanism ; Criticism and interpretation ; Democracy ; Gender relations ; Grandmothers ; Internationalism ; Literary criticism ; Men ; Metropolitan areas ; Modernity ; Mothers ; Nationalism ; Novelists ; Novels ; Political activism ; Portrayals ; Postcolonialism ; Power ; Rural areas ; Rural communities ; Sexuality ; Social aspects ; South Asian studies ; Southeast Asian culture ; Southeast Asian studies ; Sparsely populated areas ; Urban areas ; Utami, Ayu ; Villages ; Women ; Works
Is Part Of: Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde, 2016-01, Vol.172 (4), p.421-448
Description: Ayu Utami's novels Saman (1998) and Larung (2001) have attracted considerable attention, yet little of this attention has focused on their representation of cosmopolitanism. This article argues that the cosmopolitanism constructed in Utami's works exists in a world of unequal power relations and thus can only be more fully realized through democratic struggles, including struggles for more equal gender relations, in Indonesia and throughout the world. Yet the notion of a struggle for greater democracy within Indonesia is problematic in Saman and Larung precisely because of a spatio-temporal dialectic which the books represent-that between urban activists and marginalized rural populations, between secular modernity and a world seen as 'enchanted'. This divide is not simply the distance between cities and villages, but also one of relational space in which ideas and associations urban dwellers hold of villagers, as well as disparate ways of thinking, create gaps of understanding.
Publisher: The Netherlands: Brill
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0006-2294
EISSN: 2213-4379
DOI: 10.1163/22134379-17204004
Source: Brill Open Access Journals
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Cosmopolitanism, Nation, and the Urban-Rural Split in the Novels of Ayu Utami

Copyright 2016 by Michael H. Bodden ;2016 authors ;COPYRIGHT 2016 Brill Academic Publishers, Inc. ;Copyright Koninklijke Brill NV 2016 ;ISSN: 0006-2294 ;EISSN: 2213-4379 ;DOI: 10.1163/22134379-17204004

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