| ID | 151509 |
| Title Proper | Peripheral modernity and anti-colonial nationalism in Java |
| Other Title Information | economies of race and gender in the constitution of the Indonesian national teleology |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Sajed, Alina |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This analysis investigates the limits of colonial modernity in the 20th century Dutch East Indies at a time that coincided with the building of the Indonesian national project. I am interested in the constitution of the national teleology as an inexorable socio-political project, deploying specific racial and gendered economies. As a locus of investigation I choose the literary narratives of two celebrated Indonesian intellectuals (and participants in the anti-colonial struggle), Pramoedya’s Buru Quartet and Mangunwijaya’s Durga/Umayi. Were the impulses of anti-colonial resistance intrinsically national in their orientation? Through what erasures and re-appropriations has the nationalism/modernity paradigm become the medium of decolonisation? |
| `In' analytical Note | Third World Quarterly Vol. 38, No.2; 2017: p.505-523 |
| Journal Source | Third World Quarterly Vol: 38 No 2 |
| Key Words | Dutch East Indies ; Colonial Modernit ; Decolonial ; Anti-Colonial Nationalism ; National Teleology |