Tag: History
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Vicente Rafael, “Contracting Colonialism”
Conversion is translation is conversion. Contracting Colonialism by Vicente Rafael is about the uneasy relationship between translation and conversion in the Spanish colonization of the Tagalog speakers of the Philippines from the late sixteenth to the early eighteenth century. By reading curated Spanish and Tagalog sources during the period, Rafael examines “the impact of evangelization…
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Feeling Time
When Brigitta Isabella wrote her piece in May 2016, I was in the middle of preparing for my travel to Manchester, UK, to study international development. I, back then, had no serious interest in history as a question because I was still convinced I would do work on policy analysis and such and such. “1955,…
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Merve Emre, “Paraliterary”
“Bad readers were not born; they were made,” wrote Merve Emre in her first book Paraliterary. She starts the discussion by citing Vladimir Nabokov’s “Good Readers and Good Writers” who, as a teacher, was frustrated with American readers’ aesthetic. But as Emre shows, the emergence of “bad readers” in the US was not so far…
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Nancy Florida, “Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future”
To read with care and diligence, to study with utmost loving care, to feel the meaning and intent. Writing The Past, Inscribing The Future by Nancy Florida is one such book. Engaging with one text reserved in Kraton Surakarta, Babad Jaka Tingkir, Florida presents an illuminating work about the text and the history of Javanese…
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Meghan K. Roberts, “Sentimental Savants”
What family and married life could do for Enlightenment thinkers? The persisting myth says the family had little to do with philosophy. The story of Jean-Jacques Rousseau abandoning his children has allowed this myth to persist. But an extensive feminist and gender literature on domestic works and social reproduction have given us so many insights…
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Naoki Sakai, “Translation and Subjectivity”
What is translation? What happens in an effort of translation? These are the main questions Naoki Sakai answers in his book Translation and Subjectivity: On “Japan” and Cultural Nationalism (1997). His dense argument covers the limits of construing language as unity or objects of disciplines imbued with nationalist fervor. Through a practical approach, he treats…
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Bibliografi Beranotasi: Orientalisme dan Kritiknya
Dalam bahasa Inggris kelas ini berjudul “Orientalism and Its Discontents.” Kelas ini diampu oleh Prof. Rajeev Kinra, sejarawan/filolog Asia Selatan, dan merupakan course gabungan Departemen Sejarah dan Literatur Perbandingan. Judul coursenya sudah sangat kentara yak huehuehue. Selama satu triwulan, kami membaca dekat karya-karya Said: Orientalism (1994), Culture and Imperialism (1993), dan Humanism and Democratic Criticism…
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Bibliografi Beranotasi: Sejarah Intelektual Asia Tenggara
Bahan bacaan ini adalah untuk kelas independen di mana daftar judulnya disusun oleh pembimbing saya, Prof. Haydon Cherry. Kami sama-sama sedang tertarik dengan sejarah intelektual dan kurasi judul edited volume, monograf, dan artikel ini berpotongan dengan sejarah literasi dan buku Asia Tenggara. Sepanjang triwulan musim gugur ini aku menulis esai respon tiap minggu yang membahas…
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