The pained and silent song of a branch
Ecological precarity in the poetry of Taufiq Ismail and Khairani Barokka
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2179359 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Ryan (0000-0001-5102-4561, corresponding author), John Charles Ryan (0000-0002-9432-1512) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 488-502 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449855.2020.1762832 |
| OpenAlex | W3030524940 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 20 |
This article aims to illuminate how Indonesian poets Taufiq Ismail and Khairani Barokka narrativize late-20th- and early-21st-century ecological precarity, including urgent issues of deforestation, pollution, biodiversity loss, and Indigenous dispossession. Ismail set the ecocritical agenda in Indonesian poetry early on with "I Want to Write Poetry" (1975), "Reading the Signs" (1982), and "The Pained and Silent Song of a Branch" (1982). Barokka's long poem Indigenous Species (2016) similarly warns against neocolonial appropriation of land and advocates ecojustice for Indigenous communities of Kalimantan, centre of Indonesia's palm oil industry. Their poetry links ecological change and catastrophe in Indonesia to the "imperial debris" of globalization. Focused on preserving the value of traditional Indonesian relationships to the more-than-human world, their work gives prominence to the affective dimensions of ecological precarity. The article adopts a postcolonial environmental humanities framework integrating Laura Stoler's "imperial debris" and Akhil Gupta's theorization of environmental precarity as "immiserization
Art · Biology · Literature · Poetry · Precarity · Sociology · Anthropology · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Middle East Politics and Society · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Ecology · Gender Studies · History
Introduction “the Rot Remains”
Toward an Affective Ecocriticism
Culture, Power, and Authoritarianism in the Indonesian State
Deaf-accessibility for spoonies
Tradition and Sentiment in Indonesian Environmental Islam
Sense of Place and Sense of Planet
Trash, Cities, and Politics
The Scale of the Anthropocene
Imperial Debris
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |