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Menggarami burung terbang: Local understandings of national history

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posted on 2023-05-17, 05:39 authored by Pamela AllenPamela Allen
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.

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Publication title

Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde

Volume

167

Pagination

1-15

ISSN

0006-2294

Department/School

School of Humanities

Publisher

K I T L V Press

Place of publication

Netherlands

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Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

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Expanding knowledge in language, communication and culture

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