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Menggarami burung terbang: Local understandings of national history
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Allen, PM, Menggarami burung terbang: Local understandings of national history, Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 167, (1) pp. 1-15. ISSN 0006-2294 (2011) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1163/22134379-90003599
Abstract
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.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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| Keywords: | regional literature, Indonesian history, 1965, Javanese mythology |
| Research Division: | Language, Communication and Culture |
| Research Group: | Cultural studies |
| Research Field: | Asian cultural studies |
| Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
| Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in language, communication and culture |
| UTAS Author: | Allen, PM (Associate Professor Pamela Allen) |
| ID Code: | 68962 |
| Year Published: | 2011 |
| Deposited By: | Asian Languages and Studies |
| Deposited On: | 2011-04-07 |
| Last Modified: | 2017-11-17 |
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