Ayuri, gadis remaja yang memiliki kedekatan romantis dengan kedua orang tuanya, sejak kecil memiliki ketertarikan di dunia seni tari tradisional. Kondisi yang berbeda dengan anak-anak seusianya di zaman sekarang. Bagaimana orang tua Ayuri mampu memberi ruang yang tepat untuk Ayuri bersikap dalam berbagai kondisi? Bagaimana akhir cerita perjalanan Ayuri dalam menemukan hati dan rasa dalam min…
The three plays translated in this volume, Time Bomb, Cockroach Opera, and Julini’s Opera, share the same setting and cast of characters. Through their songs, colloquial language, and raunchy humor, they illustrate a blending of the energy of indigenous folk expression and the style of a Western musical. The mixture creates a kaleidoscopic presentation likely to appeal to sophisticated urban …
The six plays in this collection by Ikranagara (1943–2023) were written and performed by his theater company Teater Saja (“Simply Theater”) between 1975 and 1997 during Indonesia’s New Order era (1966–1998) when freedom of speech was severely curtailed under the autocratic rule of President Soeharto. The New Order regime was plagued by corruption, collusion, and nepotism with widespre…
Sulastri and Sudarmo, the protagonists of Suwarsih Djojopuspito’ novel, Against the Grain, faced the inevitability of such events as teachers in one of the unauthorized (“wild”) schools of 1930’s Java. This strongly autobiographical work depicts the lives of Indonesians, particularly its youth, who were imbued with the ideals of nationalism and independence in the 1930s. But the depicti…
new, powerful, evocative, brilliantly written excursion into the literature and lore of ‘Ripperology’! “The author explores the internal life and plumbs the abyss of sickness, describing in detail those aspects of Victorian London and the baser instincts of capitalism that incited him, and indeed everything that has made Jack the Ripper the unequaled incubus of horror and the imaginings t…
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