Writing the past, inscribing the future history as prophesy 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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Durham, NC
Duke University Press
1995
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| Call Number : | DS 646.27 .F56 1995 |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Writing the past, inscribing the future |b history as prophesy in colonial Java |c Nancy Florida |
| 264 | 1 | |a Durham, NC |b Duke University Press |c 1995 | |
| 264 | 4 | |c © 1995 | |
| 300 | |a xviii, 449 pages |b illustrations |c 25 cm | ||
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| 500 | |a Includes a translation and critical analysis of Babad Jaka Tingkir | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 520 | |a 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 haunting work of historical prophecy inscribed in the nineteenth century by a royal Javanese exile-working through this writing of a colonized past to suggest the reconfiguration of the postcolonial future that this history itself apparently intends. After introducing the colonial and postcolonial orientalist projects that would fix the meaning of traditional writing in Java, Nancy K. Florida provides a nuanced translation of this particular traditional history, a history composed in poetry as the dream of a mysterious exile. She then undertakes a richly textured reading of the poem that discloses how it manages to escape the fixing of "tradition." Adopting a dialogic strategy of reading, Florida writes to extend-as the work's Javanese author demands-this history's prophetic potential into a more global register | ||
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