American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader

Susu dan Telur

“Kenapa badanku yang seenaknya merasa lapar dan seenaknya menstruasi ada di sini? Aku merasa terkurung di dalam badan ini. Terus, cuma karena sudah lahir, aku harus hidup, makan terus, cari uang terus, hidup terus.” Di musim panas itu, Natsu memperoleh kunjungan dari kakaknya, Makiko. Ia datang bersama anak perempuannya, Midoriko. Sang kakak datang ke Tokyo untuk mencari layanan operasi implan payudara yang terjangkau. Sementara itu Midoriko sedang menjalani aksi bungkam, hanya bicara dengan tulisan, yang membuat kedua orang dewasa itu harus menghadapi ketakutan dan rasa frustrasinya. Di musim panas yang lain, beberapa tahun kemudian, pertanyaan-pertanyaan itu semakin bercecabang, ketika Natsu mulai memikirkan kemungkinan melahirkan anak. Bisakah memiliki anak tanpa pasangan? Apa makna ayah bagi seorang anak yang dilahirkan dari donor sperma anonim? Dan, tentu saja, kenapa harus memiliki anak?

The Power of Black Music: Interpreting its History from Africa to the United States

The Phantom World of Digul: Policing as Politics in Colonial Indonesia, 1926-1941

Digul was an internment colony for political prisoners established in 1926, upriver in West Papua. It is the key to understanding Indonesia’s colonial rule between the failed communist rebellion of late 1926 and the fall of the Indies to the Japanese in 1942, a time when the Dutch regime attempted to impose “rust en orde”, peace and order, on the Indonesian people via the suppression of politics by the police. The political policing regime the Dutch Indies state created was both a success and a failure. The native terrain was never completely pacified. Activists linked up with each other in fluid networks that cut across spatial and ideational boundaries. How did the government deploy political policing to achieve its policy objectives? What were the consequences and challenges for Indonesian activists? How was the government able to fashion its policing apparatus as the most potent instrument to achieve peace and order when the Great Depression hit the Indies, nationalist and communist forces were gaining strength in other places of the world and war was coming both in Europe and Asia? This long-awaited sequel to the author's acclaimed An Age in Motion: Popular Radicalism in Java, 1912-1926, attempts to answer these questions. “A life-long project comes to its magnificent culmination with Shiraishi’s new book, a worthy sequel to his Age in Motion.” - Rudolf Mrázek, author of Engineers of Happy Land.

Racial Science and Human diversity in Colonial Indonesia

Indonesia is home to diverse peoples who differ from one another in terms of physical appearance as well as social and cultural practices. The way such matters are understood is partly rooted in ideas developed by racial scientists working in the Netherlands Indies beginning in the late nineteenth century, who tried to develop systematic ways to define and identify distinctive races. Their work helped spread the idea that race had a scientific basis in anthropometry and craniology, and was central to people’s identity, but their encounters in the archipelago also challenged their ideas about race. In this new monograph, Fenneke Sysling draws on published works and private papers to describe the way Dutch racial scientists tried to make sense of the human diversity in the Indonesian archipelago. The making of racial knowledge, it contends, cannot be explained solely in terms of internal European intellectual developments. It was "on the ground" that ideas about race were made and unmade with a set of knowledge strategies that did not always combine well. Sysling describes how skulls were assembled through the colonial infrastructure, how measuring sessions were resisted, what role photography and plaster casting played in racial science and shows how these aspects of science in practice were entangled with the Dutch colonial Empire.

Wayang & its doubles: Javanese Puppet Theatre, Television and the Internet

Much has been said about how Javanese puppet theatre, wayang kulit, richly reflects the Javanese world, and how changes and tensions in performance practice mirror those in culture and society. For decades, television has been as intensely part of the Javanese world as wayang. This book explores the ways two complex media and modes of being, seeing and fantasizing, with their different cultures, coexist and meet, and haunt or invade each other. It is what a Javanese commentator calls a “difficult marriage”: intimate on the one hand, deeply alienating on the other, institutionalized yet at the same time mercurial and shifting. This encounter is explored on many levels: from performance aesthetics and the technicalities of television production, to issues of time, space, light, place, and movement, to audience experience of live and televised performances, to the collaboration and struggle between performers and television producers. Central to the book are personal perspectives and experiences, as well as Javanese discussions surrounding the interaction between wayang and television and their cultures. They are brought into a conversation with reflections on media and technology by writers such as Karl Marx, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jacques Derrida, Paul Virilio, and James Siegel. Wayang’s relationship with television is considered in the context of the theatre’s intercourse with older and newer media, including electricity, radio, audio- and video-recording, the internet and social media. "Professor Jan Mrazek’s new book Wayang and Its Doubles is timely, original, and brilliant in its conceptualization…This book is an eye-opener for scholars of Cultural Studies as well as scholars of Indonesia." - Laurie Sears

A Reading & Translition: Pelajaran membaca dan Menerjemahkan Bahasa Inggris

The Iliad

Evaluasi Teori, Model, Metodologi, Standar, Aplikasi dan Profesi

Moll Flanders