
Reimagining the Archipelago
The nation in post-Suharto Indonesian women's fiction
Manneke Budiman(Author)
LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Published on 18. December 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
340 pages
978-3-659-50191-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book sets out to investigate the ways in which some fiction produced by Indonesian women authors since the downfall of Suharto in 1998 explores the notion of 'nation' that was established by the New Order during its thirty-two-year rule, and offers alternative perspectives. Different authors offer a range of viewpoints: from spatial angles that encompass urban, archipelagic, and cosmopolitan outlooks, to cultural dimensions that include Islam, adat, and ethnicity. It not only opens up a new approach to reading post-1998 Indonesian women's fiction in the context of constructions of Indonesianness, but also furthers understanding of how cultural production in present-day Indonesia struggles to distance itself from the cultural and political legacy of the New Order, and at the same time is influenced by the long-lasting effects of that legacy.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
524 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-659-50191-3 (9783659501913)
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Manneke Budiman teaches literature and cultural studies at the Faculty of Humanities, the University of Indonesia.