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- Title
In Search of the Postcolonial in Indonesian Literature.
- Authors
Foulcher, Keith
- Abstract
Conceived in historical terms, the postcolonial paradigm identifies three distinct types of historical space, moving from the initial awareness of inauthenticity to a final repudiation of nationalism's Self-Other binary in a fully politicized recognition of unstable cultural location. The absence of recognizably postcolonial characteristics in Indonesian literature is related to the unbroken nexus between literature and nationalism in in- dependent Indonesia. Itself produced in a new ‘colonizingߣ language with submerged connections to the former colonial language, Indonesian literature has specific characteristics that set it apart from the postcolonial paradigm. In this respect, the work of Pramoedya Ananta Toer is problematic, however.
- Subjects
INDONESIA; POSTCOLONIALISM; POSTCOLONIAL analysis; COLONIZATION; REPUDIATION (Public finance); NATIONALISM; TOER, Pramoedya Ananta, 1925-2006; LITERATURE; POLITICAL science
- Publication
SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, 1995, Vol 10, Issue 2, p147
- ISSN
0217-9520
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1355/SJ10-2A