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Situated testimonies : dread and enchantment in an Indonesian literary archive /

The Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer made a distinction between a "downstream" literary reality and an "upstream" historical reality. Pramoedya suggested that literature has an effect on the upstream flow of history and that it can in fact change history. In Situated Testi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sears, Laurie J. (Laurie Jo)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the afterwardsness of history
  • Desire, phantoms, and commodities: Maria Dermoût's colonial critique
  • At home and not at home in empire: transnational phantasies of colonial modernity
  • A neurotic family romance of modernity and the national form
  • The end of the nationalist romance
  • Trauma and its doubles in postcolonial masculinity
  • Masculinist trauma and feminist melancholia
  • Afterword: trauma, translation, and a critical path.