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Suriname, Nature and Culture. account of a personal experience
Suriname: Nature and Culture. (account of a personal experience)
2001 •
JULIO B I T T E N C O U R T FRANCISCO
The present text has a personal vision of the author, who also incorporates in it his culture and knowledge yet his view of the world of the time he wrote the text, time that he lived and worked in the Surinamese country in the year 2001. The work brings historical, geographical, ethnic and cultural aspects of Suriname with a foresight of a Brazilian and, in a way, brings the insight that he shares with his country many characteristics that are also present in Latin America, but with a completely different aspects such as the Dutch colonization that is so very much different from the Latin way, predominant in the rest of South America. Ethnic, social and political diversity, but also the configuration of its complex society, is surprising, being for the author a kind of alter ego of his own country, achievable manly by empirical observation of how the Surinamese people deals with race, face coexistence with sparse resources, live among deep differences and struggle to survive with democracy.
Albert Helman: between erudition and "primitivity"
ALBERT HELMAN: BETWEEN ERUDITION AND 'PRIMITIVITY'. THE ODYSSEY OF A EUROPEANIZED SURINAMESE. Introductory remarks
2019 •
Johanna Visee
ABSTRACT Distance/proximity, the sense of alienation and the wish of “belonging to”, the traumatic split-up between two worlds, the relation of culture (ratio) and nature (instinct), civilization and identity in three works of the Surinamese writer Albert Helman (1903-1996) covering a period of almost 60 years. In the novel “South-South-West” (1926) the protagonist takes the reader on a memory trip through his early years in his homeland, he himself being on his first trip towards “civilization”. The novel ends with an epilogue, a fierce attack on colonialism. The second novel “Heads of the Oayapok!” (1980) consists of five speeches delivered by an ethnic anthropologist with roots in an Indian tribe in Surinam. In the first four speeches he addresses himself fictitiously to the heads of the tribe of his ancestors. In the last speech he speaks to officials honoring him for his scientific research on extinguished tribes to which he himself belongs. A brilliant artistic concept to forge the whole out of internal contradictions. The third novel, “The end of the map” was published in 1984, but referring to a journey in the inland of Surinam Helman made in 1955. In his introduction he declares that he wanted to go beyond his own personal map to explore the “terra incognita” within himself, “a shocking awakening”. Through his whole work Helman struggled with the ambivalences within his own being having internalized an enormous European culture and erudition, but always aware of the “primitive Indian” within himself.
B.W. Higman (ed.), UNESCO general history of the Caribbean
(With Rosemarijn Hoefte) Historiography of Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles
2000 •
Gert Oostindie
The Roar of the Lion in the Literary Jungles of the Malay Archipelago
2014 •
Hadijah Rahmat
This article highlights the relationship of Malay literature in Singapore with literature in Malaysia and other countries within the Malay Archipelago. It examines the effects of the secession of Singapore on the 9th of August, 1965 on Malay literature. Has the political separation of almost 50 years truly severed the literary ties between Malaysia and Singapore as far as Malay literature is concerned? Is there a dividing line that can be drawn between Malay culture in Malaysia and in Singapore, as reflected in the literary works produced? Is there still a continuity of the spirit of a common origin? This article attempts to answer these questions by discussing the development of the shared literature before 1965, the effects and themes of “separation” in these literary works, and the levels of development of literature since 1965, as well as the pattern of the literary relationship between Malaysia and Singapore.
Modern Malay Literary Culture
Modern Malay Literary Culture
1987 •
Ungku Maimunah Mohd. Tahir
Gensantos Foundation College Incorporated Bulaong Extension, General Santos City Project In English and American Literature Submitted to: Ms. Haya Jane L. Estigoy Submitted by
Lovelyn Supilanas
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Rediscovering the Literary Forms of Surigao: A Collection of Legends, Riddles, Sayings, Songs and Poetry
2022 •
rowella parrucho
Between Post-colonial and Postcolonial: A Reading Proposal through and for the Contemporary Novel Production of Mauritius (and Beyond). In "Pensée, pratiques et poétiques postcoloniales contemporaines: Monde atlantique et océan Indien" (Ed. Rodolphe SOLBIAC)
Between Post-colonial and Postcolonial: A Reading Proposal through and for the Contemporary Novel Production of Mauritius (and Beyond)
2018 •
Markus Arnold
Inspired by in-depht research on the different inscriptions of postcolonial identity in contemporary literature from Mauritius (from conventional 'writing-back' paradigms to postmodern play), this article combines reflections on the island's literary field and literary history as well as theoretical considerations from cultural and postcolonial studies in order to suggest an innovative reading method conceptualized under the terms – both contrastive and complementary – of “post-colonial” and “postcolonial”. Establishing and thinking these notions which are meant to signify two regimes of discursivity and textuality in the literary works of Mauritius is to be understood, more generally, as an attempt to nuance and make operative postcolonial terminology that seems to have become vague in critical debate these last years. The article presents this “post-colonial”-“postcolonial” reading method and shows its validity and limits in certain Mauritian novels. Considering the literary creation of this Indian Ocean island nation as paradigmatic for postcolonial literary production at large suggests a possible application of the reading scheme for literature of other cultural spaces.
Asemka
A BI-LINGUAL LITERARY JOURNAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST
2016 •
Samuel K W E S I Nkansah
This study is premised on the sociolinguistic assumption that “ human beings have the capacity to use language appropriately by selecting from their total linguistic repertoires those formal elements which match the communicative needs of particular situations” (Lawal, 2012, p. 26). One such formal element, foregrounding, is described by Yankson (1987) as occurring when there is prominence of a literary facility that draws attention to itself. This principle of foregrounding shows that even everyday conversations reveal literary properties (Carter, 2002), so is ritual verbal communications such as the funeral libation text. The study proposes that Bɔrbɔr Mfantse funeral libation texts achieve both artistic and content relevance through the use of schematic foregrounding. Twenty-four libation texts were recorded during funeral ceremonies held in the Bɔrbɔr Mfantse Nkusukum traditional area of the Central Region. The texts were then transcribed, translated into English, and analysed in the source language, using the formalistic approach. The analysis of the texts revealed that specific schemes such as refrain, parallelism, free repetition, anaphora, epistrophe, anadiplosis, antistrophe and symploce are used by performers. The paper concludes that the schematic patterns evinced in the texts establish their essence in achieving poetic effect of foregrounding both content and artistry. The paper, therefore, demonstrates that stylistic tools could be used to interpret oral literary data.
International Review of Humanities Studies
Cultural Identity Crisis in the Novel Kadang Suriname Sanak Merapi by Fuji Riang Prastowo
2022 •
Turita Indah Setyani
The crisis of cultural identity often occurs in Indonesian society. This social phenomenon generally occurs in the young generation, especially those living in urban areas such as Jakarta. This social phenomenon depicted in the novel Kadang Suriname Sanak Merapi (KSSM) by Fuji Riang Prastowo. Trisnah as the main character in the novel, chose Western culture as her cultural identity rather than Javanese culture which is her origin. The researchaims to analyze the identity crisis factors of Trisnah's character that influenced her in the process of selecting her cultural identity in the novel KSSM. The method used in this research is a qualitative method with a sociological approach to literature, a mimetic approach and a psychology approach to literature. The results of this research indicated that Trisnah`s cultural identity crisis is caused by two factors, namely social and psychological aspects that are interrelated, especially in the process of choosing her cultural identity. ...
