literature

Politics of literary translation in plurilingual Malaysia and Singapore

Literary translations between languages becomes a conscious, if not political, effort to let one another be heard within the national context.

Writing History in Premodern Java

The materiality of writing has major implications for the practice of history...When you look at a ‘medieval’ Javanese manuscript, it is almost always an 18th or 19th century copy of a copy of a copy ... and so on.