Nancy K Florida
Biographic Data
| ID | 77348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy K Florida |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy K |
| FAMILY NAME | Florida |
| SIGNATURE | FLORIDA N K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 98 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
"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…
Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia: Comparative Perspectives
Over the last few decades historians and other scholars have succeeded in identifying diverse patterns of connection linking religious communities across Asia and beyond. Yet despite the fruits of this specialist research, scholars in the subfields of Islamic and Buddhist studies have rarely engaged with each other to share investigative approaches and methods of interpretation. This volume was conceived to open up new spaces of creative interact…
Living in a Time of Madness: Last Days of Java's Last Prophetic Poet
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…
Javanese Literature in Surakarta Manuscripts: Manuscripts of the Radya Pustaka Museum and the Hardjonagaran Library
This book completes a series of three volumes cataloguing the Javanese-language manuscripts housed in four repositories in the Central Javanese city of Surakarta that were preserved in microfilm under the auspices of the Cornell University's Surakarta Manuscript Project. The present volume describes the manuscripts of the Radya Pustaka Museum and the private library of the late Panembahan Hardjonagoro, a body of materials that date from the early…
A Proliferation of Pigs: Specters of Monstrosity in Reformation Indonesia
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…
Javanese Literature in Surakarta Manuscripts: Manuscripts of the Mangkunagaran Palace
What Lies behind the Veils of Semu
Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future: History as Prophecy in Colonial Java
Sex Wars: Writing Gender Relations in Nineteenth-Century Java
Fantasizing the Feminine in Indonesia
And she the eldest daughter!... life could have been good, waiting for her turn to buy, for so many sarongs and headcloths woven with gold or silver thread and weighed on the scales, a man she liked; waiting to bear children, preferably female children!Listening to the roaring waters, the tall rustling trees, and half an hour after midnight the crackle of blazing torches, and the sound of men's voices coming through the dark, as they climbed down…
Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future: History as Prophecy in Colonial Java
Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future: History as Prophecy in Colonial Java
of their meaning and intent.The poet challenges readers to work toward comprehension, to learn that textual meaning is not a self-evident given served up for their passive consumption.And 50 he dares them to read in ways that will involve them in the active production of meaning-to enter into dialogue with the half-forgotten texts of the past. 3"Try to comprehend," Ronggasasmita writes in words that also mean "take up and extend the language" of …
Javanese Literature in Surakarta Manuscripts: Introduction and Manuscripts of the Karaton Surakarta
The first volume of the annotated bibliography of Javanese manuscripts housed in the Reksa Pustaka library in Surakarta, the first institutionalized library in the Indies founded and administered by native Javanese
The Badhaya Katawang: A Translation of the Song of Kangjeng Ratu Kidul
Nancy K. FloridaTwenty-five years ago, Nusjirwan Tirtaamidjaja published the Badhaya Katawang litany in Javanese as an appendix to his article, "A Bedaja Ketawang Dance Performance at the Court of Surakarta."1Preceding the litany was a call for its translation; the present article ventures a translation of this difficult and complicated lyric as a belated response to that call.To the English-language reader this translation serves as a needed sup…
Reading the Unread in Traditional Javanese Literature
For the most part traditional Javanese literaturel remains something imagined rather than something read. Why this is the case and what might happen if it were not so, will be the issues addressed in this article. No doubt the dominant image among Javanese today, of traditional literature (particularly in manuscript form) is that of an acknowledged classic--an untarnished emblem of high culture, a mysteriously inscribed jewel from a vast cultural…
Fantasizing the Feminine in Indonesia
And she the eldest daughter!... life could have been good, waiting for her turn to buy, for so many sarongs and headcloths woven with gold or silver thread and weighed on the scales, a man she liked; waiting to bear children, preferably female children!Listening to the roaring waters, the tall rustling trees, and half an hour after midnight the crackle of blazing torches, and the sound of men's voices coming through the dark, as they climbed down…
Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future: History as Prophecy in Colonial Java
of their meaning and intent.The poet challenges readers to work toward comprehension, to learn that textual meaning is not a self-evident given served up for their passive consumption.And 50 he dares them to read in ways that will involve them in the active production of meaning-to enter into dialogue with the half-forgotten texts of the past. 3"Try to comprehend," Ronggasasmita writes in words that also mean "take up and extend the language" of …
Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future: History as Prophecy in Colonial Java
The Badhaya Katawang: A Translation of the Song of Kangjeng Ratu Kidul
Nancy K. FloridaTwenty-five years ago, Nusjirwan Tirtaamidjaja published the Badhaya Katawang litany in Javanese as an appendix to his article, "A Bedaja Ketawang Dance Performance at the Court of Surakarta."1Preceding the litany was a call for its translation; the present article ventures a translation of this difficult and complicated lyric as a belated response to that call.To the English-language reader this translation serves as a needed sup…
Reading the Unread in Traditional Javanese Literature
For the most part traditional Javanese literaturel remains something imagined rather than something read. Why this is the case and what might happen if it were not so, will be the issues addressed in this article. No doubt the dominant image among Javanese today, of traditional literature (particularly in manuscript form) is that of an acknowledged classic--an untarnished emblem of high culture, a mysteriously inscribed jewel from a vast cultural…
Living in a Time of Madness: Last Days of Java's Last Prophetic Poet
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: Specters of Monstrosity in Reformation Indonesia
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…
Reading the Unread in Traditional Javanese Literature
For the most part traditional Javanese literaturel remains something imagined rather than something read. Why this is the case and what might happen if it were not so, will be the issues addressed in this article. No doubt the dominant image among Javanese today, of traditional literature (particularly in manuscript form) is that of an acknowledged classic--an untarnished emblem of high culture, a mysteriously inscribed jewel from a vast cultural…
The Badhaya Katawang: A Translation of the Song of Kangjeng Ratu Kidul
Nancy K. FloridaTwenty-five years ago, Nusjirwan Tirtaamidjaja published the Badhaya Katawang litany in Javanese as an appendix to his article, "A Bedaja Ketawang Dance Performance at the Court of Surakarta."1Preceding the litany was a call for its translation; the present article ventures a translation of this difficult and complicated lyric as a belated response to that call.To the English-language reader this translation serves as a needed sup…
Javanese Literature in Surakarta Manuscripts: Introduction and Manuscripts of the Karaton Surakarta
The first volume of the annotated bibliography of Javanese manuscripts housed in the Reksa Pustaka library in Surakarta, the first institutionalized library in the Indies founded and administered by native Javanese
Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future: History as Prophecy in Colonial Java
of their meaning and intent.The poet challenges readers to work toward comprehension, to learn that textual meaning is not a self-evident given served up for their passive consumption.And 50 he dares them to read in ways that will involve them in the active production of meaning-to enter into dialogue with the half-forgotten texts of the past. 3"Try to comprehend," Ronggasasmita writes in words that also mean "take up and extend the language" of …
Sex Wars: Writing Gender Relations in Nineteenth-Century Java
Fantasizing the Feminine in Indonesia
And she the eldest daughter!... life could have been good, waiting for her turn to buy, for so many sarongs and headcloths woven with gold or silver thread and weighed on the scales, a man she liked; waiting to bear children, preferably female children!Listening to the roaring waters, the tall rustling trees, and half an hour after midnight the crackle of blazing torches, and the sound of men's voices coming through the dark, as they climbed down…
Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future: History as Prophecy in Colonial Java
What Lies behind the Veils of Semu
Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future: History as Prophecy in Colonial Java
Javanese Literature in Surakarta Manuscripts: Manuscripts of the Mangkunagaran Palace
A Proliferation of Pigs: Specters of Monstrosity in Reformation Indonesia
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…
Javanese Literature in Surakarta Manuscripts: Manuscripts of the Radya Pustaka Museum and the Hardjonagaran Library
This book completes a series of three volumes cataloguing the Javanese-language manuscripts housed in four repositories in the Central Javanese city of Surakarta that were preserved in microfilm under the auspices of the Cornell University's Surakarta Manuscript Project. The present volume describes the manuscripts of the Radya Pustaka Museum and the private library of the late Panembahan Hardjonagoro, a body of materials that date from the early…
Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia: Comparative Perspectives
Over the last few decades historians and other scholars have succeeded in identifying diverse patterns of connection linking religious communities across Asia and beyond. Yet despite the fruits of this specialist research, scholars in the subfields of Islamic and Buddhist studies have rarely engaged with each other to share investigative approaches and methods of interpretation. This volume was conceived to open up new spaces of creative interact…
Living in a Time of Madness: Last Days of Java's Last Prophetic Poet
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…
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