Nancy Florida
Biographic Data
| ID | 202289 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy Florida |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy |
| FAMILY NAME | Florida |
| SIGNATURE | FLORIDA N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2327-4763 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction
In this essay, I provide brief introductions to the notion of “prophetic” historiography that I developed in Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future: History as Prophecy in Colonial Java (1995) and to the five essays of this forum that were written in dialogue with it. I argue that “history as prophecy” forms a practice of writing in which the “prophetic historian” seizes hold of a moment of past potency to self‐consciously reinscribe it in the h…
Islam in the Early Modern Javanese Courts
All too often, Islam in the early modern Javanese courts is trivialized by being called a form of syncretism . This article calls that trivialization into question through an exploration of Islamic traditions in Java from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries, in large part as they are revealed in a selection of writings produced by Javanese subjects associated with those courts. This brief historical review argues that the living Isl…
From the Men They Took Their Labor, from the Women They Took Everything
From the Men they Took their Labor, From the Women they Took Everything” is a translation of the testimony of Sarbinatun (1947–2010), a Javanese woman who was one of the many thousands of political prisoners detained in the wake of the purported coup of September 30, 1965. Sarbinatun had been active in both Lekra and IPPI in her native city of Surakarta, Central Java. Both were left-wing organizations that were associated with the Indonesian Comm…
"The song of Samsu Tabriz in Ronggasasmita’s "Suluk Acih
The article contributes an excerpt from the Karaton Surakarta poet Ronggasasmita’s Suluk Kutub (also known as Suluk Samsu Tabriz) along with an annotated translation of the text into English. Suluk Kutub is one of the metaphysical poems that belong to this Sufi poet’s Suluk Acih, a text that he compiled in Aceh in 1815. The poem is a Javanese rendition of the meeting of Jalaluddin Rumi (Jav. Mulana Amir Kaji Rum) with his beloved, Shamsuddin Tabr…
Living in a Time of Madness
Shortly before his death in December 1873, the renowned Javanese court poet R. Ng. Ronggawarsita composed a short work of social criticism and Islamic ethics that is among the most celebrated of Javanese literary texts. Serat Kalatidha (The Time of Darkness) reflects upon the avenues that remain open to the ethical subject in what Ronggawarsita calls the "time of madness," the time of darkness and error that marked his dismal present in high colo…
A Proliferation of Pigs
This essay explores visual art, literary production, memory, and politics in Indonesia at the cusp of the twenty-first century. It focuses on the paintings of the contemporary Indonesian artist Djokopekik and the translation of those paintings into literature by the novelist Sindhunata; both painter and writer are self-consciously engaged in the societal struggles that surrounded and succeeded the fall of President Soeharto in May 1998. The essay…
Living in a Time of Madness
Shortly before his death in December 1873, the renowned Javanese court poet R. Ng. Ronggawarsita composed a short work of social criticism and Islamic ethics that is among the most celebrated of Javanese literary texts. Serat Kalatidha (The Time of Darkness) reflects upon the avenues that remain open to the ethical subject in what Ronggawarsita calls the "time of madness," the time of darkness and error that marked his dismal present in high colo…
A Proliferation of Pigs
This essay explores visual art, literary production, memory, and politics in Indonesia at the cusp of the twenty-first century. It focuses on the paintings of the contemporary Indonesian artist Djokopekik and the translation of those paintings into literature by the novelist Sindhunata; both painter and writer are self-consciously engaged in the societal struggles that surrounded and succeeded the fall of President Soeharto in May 1998. The essay…
A Proliferation of Pigs
This essay explores visual art, literary production, memory, and politics in Indonesia at the cusp of the twenty-first century. It focuses on the paintings of the contemporary Indonesian artist Djokopekik and the translation of those paintings into literature by the novelist Sindhunata; both painter and writer are self-consciously engaged in the societal struggles that surrounded and succeeded the fall of President Soeharto in May 1998. The essay…
Living in a Time of Madness
Shortly before his death in December 1873, the renowned Javanese court poet R. Ng. Ronggawarsita composed a short work of social criticism and Islamic ethics that is among the most celebrated of Javanese literary texts. Serat Kalatidha (The Time of Darkness) reflects upon the avenues that remain open to the ethical subject in what Ronggawarsita calls the "time of madness," the time of darkness and error that marked his dismal present in high colo…
"The song of Samsu Tabriz in Ronggasasmita’s "Suluk Acih
The article contributes an excerpt from the Karaton Surakarta poet Ronggasasmita’s Suluk Kutub (also known as Suluk Samsu Tabriz) along with an annotated translation of the text into English. Suluk Kutub is one of the metaphysical poems that belong to this Sufi poet’s Suluk Acih, a text that he compiled in Aceh in 1815. The poem is a Javanese rendition of the meeting of Jalaluddin Rumi (Jav. Mulana Amir Kaji Rum) with his beloved, Shamsuddin Tabr…
From the Men They Took Their Labor, from the Women They Took Everything
From the Men they Took their Labor, From the Women they Took Everything” is a translation of the testimony of Sarbinatun (1947–2010), a Javanese woman who was one of the many thousands of political prisoners detained in the wake of the purported coup of September 30, 1965. Sarbinatun had been active in both Lekra and IPPI in her native city of Surakarta, Central Java. Both were left-wing organizations that were associated with the Indonesian Comm…
Introduction
In this essay, I provide brief introductions to the notion of “prophetic” historiography that I developed in Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future: History as Prophecy in Colonial Java (1995) and to the five essays of this forum that were written in dialogue with it. I argue that “history as prophecy” forms a practice of writing in which the “prophetic historian” seizes hold of a moment of past potency to self‐consciously reinscribe it in the h…
Islam in the Early Modern Javanese Courts
All too often, Islam in the early modern Javanese courts is trivialized by being called a form of syncretism . This article calls that trivialization into question through an exploration of Islamic traditions in Java from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries, in large part as they are revealed in a selection of writings produced by Javanese subjects associated with those courts. This brief historical review argues that the living Isl…
Asian Studies and History (5 works) · Art (3 works) · Cultural and Religious Practices in Indonesia (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Poetry (3 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Indonesian (2 works) · Islam (2 works) · Islamic Finance and Communication (2 works)