Code: 04874508

Durga Umayi

Name: Durga Umayi
Brand: University of Washington Press
SKU: 04874508
Price: 31.38 EUR
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Author: Y. B. Mangunwijaya
ISBN: 9780295983929

by Y. B. Mangunwijaya

Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: University of Washington Press, 2004
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Book synopsis

This scathingly satirical and hilarious novel, first published in Indonesia in 1991, affords both a blithely irreverent overview of Indonesian history in the Sukarno and Suharto eras and brilliant insights into the postcolonial condition. The story begins in the 1930s, before Indonesia's independence from Dutch rule, and follows the fortunes of a poor Javanese village woman who becomes a servant in the household of President Sukarno. In a world where speaking truth to power really has no point, she learns the arts of accommodation and does very well for herself. The price she pays is the loss of her identity, her connection to her kin and origins, and her moral standing. Framed by the world of ritual shadow plays - the realm of witches like Durga and the goddess Umayi - Mangunwijaya's novel gives an unblinking but remarkably compassionate account of people caught up in the great nationalist maelstrom of Indonesia's recent history.