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The phrase "Indonesian literature" is used in this article to refer to Indonesian as written in the nation of Indonesia, but also covers literature written in an earlier form of the language, i.e. the Malay language written in the Dutch East Indies. Oral literature, though a central part of the Indonesian literary tradition, is not described here.
John H. McGlynn (who also uses the pen name Willem Samuels; born October 14, 1952, in Cazenovia, Wisconsin) is an American editor and translator. [1]In 1987, along with four Indonesian writers, Goenawan Mohamad, Sapardi Djoko Damono, Umar Kayam, and Subagio Sastrowardoyo, he founded the Lontar Foundation with the aim of promoting Indonesian literature and culture to the international world ...
The emergence of various literary styles in the period 1950-1965 can not be separated from the existence of cultural polemic in Indonesia. In the midst of an ideological war going on, came the cultural institutions that represent each of the main competing ideologies.
In History of Modern Indonesian Literature, Teeuw wrote that modern Indonesian literature began in 1920, with the Indonesian National Awakening. He argued that Indonesian literature, despite the country only becoming independent on 17 August 1945, was born with the concept of a united Indonesia. Teeuw further divided Indonesian literature into ...
Aside from that, some critics such as H. B. Jassin consider the publication of Azab dan Sengsara to be the birth of modern Indonesian literature. Among the themes common to works published in the Balai Pustaka period are arranged marriage , conflict between the younger and older generations, and conflict between Western culture and traditional ...
In 1960 he published an academic work regarding the Indonesian language and literature, entitled Kedudukan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia (The Position of the Indonesian Language and Literature). [2] Usman graduated from the University of Indonesia in 1961 with a degree in literature before formally earning his teacher's diploma the following year ...
The Indonesian literature published between 1933 and 1942 is sometimes described as from the "Poedjangga Baroe generation", a reference to the publication's dominance. [48] Translator and literary critic Burton Raffel described the magazine as a "midwife to a literary revolution", noting that the political revolution in the 1940s was likely ...
The foundation is an independent organization whose core activity is the translation and publication of Indonesian literary works. One of Lontar's most noted works is Illuminations: The Writing Traditions of Indonesia: Featuring Manuscripts from the National Library of Indonesia. According to Associate Professor Jean Gelman Taylor from the ...