Tohari's Trilogy
Passages of Power and Time in Java
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9083792 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nancy I Cooper (Center for Southeast Asian Studies, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 531-556 |
| Publication date | 2004-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4634 • E-ISSN: 1474-0680 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022463404000268 |
| OpenAlex | W1979921892 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Ahmad Tohari's trilogy of novels conjures up national demons of Indonesia's darkest historical moment. In reading across the grain of anti-communism and pro-moral reform, this article analyses a wealth of gender imagery. Javanese complementarity, although unequal, recognises a kind of dramatic feminine power that need not be threatening as long as men exercise self-restraint. Although modernisation tends to dichotomise persons into ‘castes’ of the sinful and virtuous, alternative modernities drawn from Javanese cultural sensibilities are also conceivable
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Communism · Complementarity (molecular biology) · Literature · Modernization theory · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Reading (process) · Sociology · Trilogy · Asian Studies and History · Cultural and Religious Practices in Indonesia · Gender and Women's Rights · Gender Studies · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2019 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |