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Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future : History as Prophecy in Colonial Java /
Located at the juncture of literature, history, and anthropology, Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future charts a strategy of how one might read a traditional text of non-Western historical literature in order to generate, with it, an opening for the future. This book does so by taking seriously a...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham, N.C. :
Duke University Press,
1995.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Maps and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Manuscripts, Spelling, Pronunciation, and Translation
- Titles in the Kraton Surakarta
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: On the Possibilities of Reading in Java
- Chapter 1. The Writing of a History
- Chapter 2. Babad Jaka Tingkir in Translation
- Chapter 3. Invoking the Future in Writing a Past
- Chapter 4. A Question of Visibility: Writing History in Java
- Chapter 5. The Demak Mosque: A Construction of Authority
- Chapter 6. Three Javanese Gurus: On the Generation of Marginal Powers.
- Conclusion: History and Prophecy
- Appendix I. Descriptive Table of Contents for Kupiya Iber Warni-warni Sampeyan-dalem kaping VI
- Appendix II. Genealogy of Sarifi Ibrahim Madyakusuma
- Appendix III. Meters of Babad Jaka Tingkir
- Appendix IV. Opening Lines of Cantos: Babad Jaka Tingkir
- Glossary of Selected Terms and Titles
- Bibliography
- Index.