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He wept for Indonesia
Hilmar Farid
It was one year ago. ‘Everything I’ve done has been for Indonesia. Everything. But look at how it’s turned out. Why does it have to be this way?’ Pram was lying stretched out in the front room of his house in Utan Kayu, a sick old man. I was seeing him cry for the first time. I said nothing, and just kept on massaging his foot.
The author of nearly 20 novels and hundreds of short stories and essays, Pram was the writer who did most to introduce Indonesia to the world. Many of his books are translated into major world languages, and some have appeared in other languages as well, both in Europe and in Asia. For some years he’s been named as a candidate for the Nobel Prize, and he has been honoured by several American universities. The front room of his house is crammed with awards and recognitions of his work. But only one, or possibly two, of them have come from Indonesia.
Indeed, in his own country Pram’s reputation was defamed, and for many years he was treated like a pariah. Whether deliberately or simply from negligence, right up to the end of the 1990s the Jakarta telephone directory listed him in the travel section of the yellow pages, as Pramoedya Ananta Tour. Intelligence officers used to hang around outside his house
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Perang Suara: Bahasa dan Politik Pergerakan, encourage Hilmar Farid
Hilmar Farid, Perang Suara: Bahasa dan Politik Pergerakan. Depok: Komunitas Bambu, 2024, xxi +140 pp. ISBN: 9786237357452, price: IDR 86,000.00 (hardback).
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Hilmar Farid_Rewriting The Nation: Pramoedya Ananta Toer and the Politics of Decolonization _Chapter II_Rewriting Pramoedya
Chapter 6 Rewriting Pramoedya The search for meaning of a literary work in mainstream literary criticism, particularly Russian Formalism and New Criticism, has been focused on the study of the text itself. Despite the different interpretations that critics may have of a particular text, there is an underlying assumption that the text would produce similar effects on readers regardless of the particular context in which the text is being read. The meaning of the text from the perspective of the reader is fixed and unchanging, or to put it differently, that the implied reader of a text is none other than an abstract idealized being, void of political and historical content. This is even more true in postcolonial where the audience or reader, despite the theoretical innovations of reader-response criticism in the 1970s, still persists as a marginal figure.1 The reason for the absence of readers in postcolonial theory is both historical and practical. Reader-response criticism is largely based on the American and European experience, which are both distinct from the literary culture of the former colonies. For example, the assumption that ordinary people may