Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future: History as Prophecy in Colonial Java

Author/Contributor(s):	Florida, Nancy K
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	08/24/1995
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

""Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future" could only have been written by someone who has not only the most technically precise knowledge of the Javanese language and the history of its social uses, but also one acutely aware of the raging debates around the critical study of non-Western histories; recent work on poststructuralist and postcolonial understandings of literature, power, and agency; and a keen appreciation of the politics of historical scholarship on and in Indonesia. Nancy Florida succeeds on all counts."--Vincente Rafael, University of California, San Diego