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Hombre Tigre

Autor: Eka Kurniawan

Número de Páginas: 158

En esta novela mordaz y conmovedora, ambientada en una pequeña ciudad de la costa de Indonesia, se narra la historia de dos familias entrelazadas y de Margio, un chico corriente en casi todo, salvo en el hecho de que oculta dentro de sí a una tigresa blanca sobrenatural. Las pequeñas miserias y traiciones de la vida familiar atormentan a este ser mágico, hasta que la violencia acaba por desencadenarse y su misteriosa causa se va conociendo a medida que los acontecimientos se suceden. Kurniawan teje con maestría una delicada metáfora sobre la violencia, el abuso y la sed de justicia que se extiende desde el núcleo familiar a la historia reciente de Indonesia, denunciando las masacres de aquellos años y la amnesia colectiva usada para esconder a las víctimas como una especie de segunda muerte. Lírica y obscena, experimental y política, esta extraordinaria novela anuncia la llegada de una nueva y poderosa voz literaria.

Beauty Is a Wound

Autor: Eka Kurniawan

Número de Páginas: 377

The English-language debut of Indonesia's rising star. The epic novel Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humor, and romance in a sweeping polyphony. The beautiful Indo prostitute Dewi Ayu and her four daughters are beset by incest, murder, bestiality, rape, insanity, monstrosity, and the often vengeful undead. Kurniawan’s gleefully grotesque hyperbole functions as a scathing critique of his young nation’s troubled past:the rapacious offhand greed of colonialism; the chaotic struggle for independence; the 1965 mass murders of perhaps a million “Communists,” followed by three decades of Suharto’s despotic rule. Beauty Is a Wound astonishes from its opening line: One afternoon on a weekend in May, Dewi Ayu rose from her grave after being dead for twenty-one years.... Drawing on local sources—folk tales and the all-night shadow puppet plays, with their bawdy wit and epic scope—and inspired by Melville and Gogol, Kurniawan’s distinctive voice brings something luscious yet astringent to contemporary literature.

Man Tiger

Autor: Eka Kurniawan

Número de Páginas: 173

A wry, affecting tale set in a small town on the Indonesian coast, Man Tiger tells the story of two interlinked and tormented families and of Margio, a young man ordinary in all particulars except that he conceals within himself a supernatural female white tiger. The inequities and betrayals of family life coalesce around and torment this magical being. An explosive act of violence follows, and its mysterious cause is unraveled as events progress toward a heartbreaking revelation. Lyrical and bawdy, experimental and political, this extraordinary novel announces the arrival of a powerful new voice on the global literary stage.

Kitchen Curse

Autor: Eka Kurniawan

Número de Páginas: 145

Nominated for the Man Booker International, Eka Kurniawan brings his short stories into English for the first time Eka Kurniawan’s freewheeling imagination explores the turbulent dreams of an ex-prostitute, the hapless life of a perpetual student, victims of an anticommunist genocide, the travails of an elephant, even the vengeful fantasies of a stone. Dark, sexual, scatological, violent, and mordantly funny, these fractured fables span city and country, animal and human, myth and politics. Like nothing else, Kurniawan’s stories bury themselves in the mind. His characters and insights are at once hauntingly familiar, peculiar, and twisted.

Transpacific Literary and Cultural Connections

Autor: Jie Lu , Martín Camps

Número de Páginas: 269

This critical interdisciplinary volume investigates modern and contemporary Asian cultural products in the non-westernized transpacific context of Asian and Latin American intellectual and cultural connections. It focuses on the Latin American intellectual, literary, and cultural influences on Asia, which have long been overshadowed by the dominance of Europe/North America-oriented discourse and by the predominance of academic research by both Asian and western intellectuals that focuses only on the West. Moving beyond the western intellectual paradigm, the volume examines how Asian literature, films, and art interact with Latin American literature and ideas to reexamine, reconsider, and re-explore issues related to the two regions' historical traumas, cultural identities, indigenous/vernacular traditions, and peripheral global-ness. The volume argues that Asian and Latin American literary and cultural endeavors are part of these regions' broader efforts to search for the forms of modernity that best fit their unique sociohistorical and sociocultural conditions.

ICOLLEC 2021

Autor: Sigit Prawoto , Roosi Rusmawati , Syariful Muttaqin

Número de Páginas: 277

The goal of ICOLLEC 2021 is to provide an academic forum for disseminating diverse scholarly, analytical, and practical perspectives on the tenets and nexuses through interdisciplinary dialog in the realms of humanities, education, and the arts. The topic for this year is "The Dynamics of Language, Literature, Education, Art, and Culture of a Changing Society in the Age of Disruption." We pledge to capture a vivid portrayal and a picturesque sphere for the various cutting-edge phenomena in language, literature, education, art, and culture. While the contributions and passion shown throughout the conference have far surpassed our expectations. As a result, we are overwhelmed with a sense of triumph and enlightenment. It is a great accomplishment for us to present the conference proceedings as the remembrance of the authors and delegates of ICOLLEC 2021 in a permanent record of what was presented. The proceedings are organized into three sections: language, literature, and culture. We collected 35 remarkable manuscripts in the discussion from around 60 papers presented. Hopefully, you will find it insightful, fascinating, and inspirational. This proceeding also includes two...

The Dog Meows, The Cat Barks

Autor: Eka Kurniawan

Número de Páginas: 132

I had no idea that the day I lost my foreskin I stumbled into a trap, completely ignorant and unprepared. Sato Reang never wanted to become a pious child. But now Father is dead, and there are no more prayers. Sato can live as he chooses: he eats his fill, pisses on cars, laughs heartily at the craziest jokes. He sets the movie theatre on fire. Sato Reang doesn't hide his face anymore. But, what can he do about Jamal? The only kid in the village who shared Sato's torturous religious upbringing. No one's ever told him he should commit one tiny sin... Until today. Filled with devilish humour, The Dog Meows, The Cat Barks is a heart-breaking fire whip of a novella about delighting in wickedness and the costs of vengeance.

Les belles de Halimunda

Autor: Eka Kurniawan

Número de Páginas: 660

C'est à Halimunda, petite ville imaginaire sur la côte sud de Java, que se situe l'époustouflant premier roman d'Eka Kurniawan, dont la critique internationale a beaucoup souligné la filiation avec l'oeuvre de Gabriel García Márquez : plongée épique dans l'histoire de l'Indonésie pendant la deuxième moitié du xxe siècle, il retrace le turbulent destin de trois générations de femmes et s'inscrit clairement dans une tradition de réalisme magique. Le livre s'ouvre au moment où Dewi Ayu, qui fut la prostituée la plus célèbre de la ville, sort de sa tombe vingt et un ans après sa mort. Couverte de son linceul, sa très longue chevelure flottant au vent, elle traverse Halimunda pour rentrer chez elle. Dans la véranda est assise une jeune fille d'une insoutenable laideur. Dewi Ayu comprend que son voeu a été exaucé : épouvantée par la succession de catastrophes que la beauté de ses trois filles aînées, aussi séduisantes que leur mère, avait valu à la ville, elle avait tout mis en oeuvre pour que la quatrième fût laide. La repoussante jeune femme – la description de son physique laisse à l'écrivain l'occasion de déployer toute sa veine comique –...

ICHSS 2022

Autor: Sarwiji Suwandi , Andayani Andayani , Heru Kurniawan , Aninditya Sri Nugraheni

Número de Páginas: 439

We are pleased to introduce the proceedings of the second edition of the International Conference of Humanities and Social Science 2022 (ICHSS). The conference has brought researchers, developers, and practitioners around the world to write about their work in social and humanities research aimed at strengthening diversity. The theme of ICHSS 2022 is "Freedom to Learn in Education, Social, Religious, Culture, and Language Perspective."

La belleza es una herida /Beauty Is a Wound

Autor: Eka Kurniawan

Número de Páginas: 0

Una saga familiar marcada por el sexo, la brutalidad y un destino trágico que correrá paralelo a la historia reciente de su país, Indonesia. La belleza es una herida sorprende desde la primera página: de repente vemos a una mujer poderosa caminar por las calles de Halimunda, la ciudad indonesia donde nació. Viene del reino de los muertos, pero sigue rodeada del odio y la corrupción que fueron moneda común en ese país a lo largo de todo el siglo xx. Ella es Dewi Ayu, una famosa prostituta, hija de unos padres sin escrúpulos y madre de cuatro niñas que le dio el Diablo. Dewi aprendió desde muy joven a unir inteligencia y hermosura para sobrevivir a los horrores de una invasión enemiga y luego a tratar con soltura a los clientes del mejor burdel de la ciudad. Su único pesar es el carácter caprichoso de las hijas, dueñas de una belleza que es una herida abierta y sin cura. Dewi vuelve ahora, y en el mundo de los vivos le espera una sorpresa. Madres, hijas, hermanas, yernos, sobrinos, maridos, amantes e incluso fantasmas: gracias al talento de Kurniawan, nos llega de Indonesia una saga familiar marcada por el sexo, la brutalidad y un destino familiar grotesco que corre...

La belleza es una herida

Autor: Eka Kurniawan

Número de Páginas: 540

Una saga familiar marcada por el sexo, la brutalidad y un destino trágico que correrá paralelo a la historia reciente de su país, Indonesia. Dewi Ayu, una bella prostituta dada por muerta veinte años antes, aparece en medio del paisaje bélico y de tumultuosa inestabilidad política de la Indonesia del siglo XX. Esta inesperada reaparición es el punto de partida para la narración de su vida. Dewi siempre supo cómo tratar a los hombres, y su fama de buena amante y de mujer hermosa la obligaron a tomar decisiones drásticas que cambiarían la vida de sus cuatro hijas. La belleza es una herida es la historia de una mujer hermosa que supo gobernar su belleza y la de su país, Indonesia. Reseña: «Eka Kurniawan no defrauda: esta es, según él, la historia de su país, una narración de crudas realidades. [...] Dolor, amor, picaresca, sexo, violencia: literatura.» Robert Saladrigas, La Vanguardia En los blogs... «Se trata de una novela estupenda y muy entretenida, donde el autor crea un universo propio en sus páginas. Una saga familiar donde las mujeres tienen un papel preponderante. [...] La escritura de Eka Kurniawan se recrea en los personajes, es de tono intimista y...

INDONÉSIE 2019/2020 Petit Futé

Autor: Dominique Auzias , Jean-paul Labourdette

Número de Páginas: 1049

Partir en Indonésie : longer les cratères de Java, traverser les jungles du Sumatra, descendre les fleuves boueux de Bornéo, nager au milieu des massifs de corail des Moluques, visiter les chantiers navals des Célèbes et naviguer entre l'Océan Indien et l'Océan Pacifique, sur des voiliers hors d'âge étonnants par leurs prouesses nautiques. Manger des fruits exotiques et du poisson grillé sous les cocotiers au bord d'une mer cristalline.

Ensiklopedi sastrawan Indonesia

Autor: Indarti Yuni Astuti

Número de Páginas: 262

Encyclopedia of prominent Indonesian authors and literature.

Wacana journal of the humanities of Indonesia

Número de Páginas: 860

China and the Shaping of Indonesia, 1949-1965

Autor: Hong Liu

Número de Páginas: 340

The interactions and mutual perceptions of China and Indonesia were a significant element in Asia's postcolonial transformation, but as a result of prevailing emphasis on diplomatic and political relations within a Cold War and nation-state framework, their multi-dimensional interrelationship and its complex domestic ramifications have escaped scholarly scrutiny. China and the Shaping of Indonesia provides a meticulous account of versatile interplay between knowledge, power, ethnicity, and diplomacy in the context of Sino-Indonesian interactions between 1949 and 1965. Taking a transnational approach that views Asia as a flexible geographical and political construct, this book addresses three central questions. First, what images of China were prevalent in Indonesia, and how were narratives about China construed and reconstructed? Second, why did the China Metaphor - the projection of an imagined foreign land onto the local intellectual and political milieu - become central to Indonesians' conception of themselves and a cause for self criticism and rediscovery? Third, how was the China Metaphor incorporated into Indonesia's domestic politics and culture, and how did it affect the...

New Left Review

Número de Páginas: 494

L.A. underlover

Número de Páginas: 260

Sipena

Número de Páginas: 92

Collection of poems, short stories, and essays by the authors from Selangor, Malaysia, winner of Hadiah Sastera Selangorkini 2015.

Jangan banyak tanya, ini cuma dongeng

Autor: Salim Said

Número de Páginas: 344

History and criticism on Indonesian literary works; festschrift in honor of Hans Bague Jassin, an Indonesian writer, and volume commemorating the 100th anniversary of Balai Pustaka.