Storied Island

New Explorations in Javanese Literature
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-54146-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 316, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde

Javanese literature is one of the world’s richest and most unusual literary traditions yet it is little known today outside of Java, Indonesia, and a handful of western universities. With its more than a millennium of documented history, its complex interactions over the centuries with literature written in Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian, Malay and Dutch, its often symbiotic relationship with the performing arts of puppetry and dance, and its own immense creativity and insight, this vastly understudied literature offers a lens to understanding Java’s fascinating world as well as human ingenuity more broadly. The essays in this volume, Storied Island: New Explorations in Javanese Literature, take a fresh look at questions and themes pertaining to Java’s literature, employing new theoretical and methodological lenses.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ricci, Ronit

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgments

List of Figures and Maps

A Note on Orthography and Transliteration

Abbreviations

Introduction

Ronit Ricci

1 Rediscovering Islam in Javanese History

M.C. Ricklefs

2 Stepping on a Wulu: Minor Characters and Narrative Possibilities in the Serat Centhini

Tony Day

3 Better to Touch the Heart: Performing Sufi Songs (Suluk) in the Serat Centhini

Nancy K. Florida

4 The Hamza Affect: Feeling as a Moving Force in the Asian-Islamic Epic

Bernard Arps

5 Sunan Bonang’s Teaching: Ethical Sufism in Sixteenth-Century Java

Yumi Sugahara

6 Situated Prophethood: Reading the Serat Ambiya in Nineteenth-Century Java

Ronit Ricci

7 Where Is Mecca? Or, Map and Territory: Reflections from Java

Verena Meyer

8 Words of Power and Wisdom: Credible Authorities and Reliable Sources in the Serat Nitik Sultan Agung

Els Bogaerts

9 On the Wrong Side of History

Key Episodes in the Serat Rama and the Panji Paniba

Willem van der Molen

10 Rethinking Categorization in Javanese Literary History: Some Reflections on a Fin-de-Siècle Memoir by Raden Sasrakusuma

Edwin P. Wieringa

Glossary

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ronit Ricci (PhD in Comparative Literature, University of Michigan 2006) is Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is also affiliated with the Australian National University. She has published widely on Javanese and Malay manuscript cultures, the Sri Lanka Malays, translation, and exile in colonial Asia. She is currently leading the ERC-funded project Textual Microcosms: A New Approach in Translation Studies, focused on interlinear translations from the Indonesian-Malay world.