Situated Testimonies: Dread and Enchantment in an Indonesian Literary Archive

by Laurie J. Sears

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 Testimonies Laurie Sears illuminates this process by considering a selection of Dutch Indies and Indonesian literary works that span the twentieth century and beyond and by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824836839
• ISBN13: 9780824836832
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"