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A Certain Age: Colonial Jakarta through the Memories of its...

A Certain Age: Colonial Jakarta through the Memories of its Intellectuals

Rudolf Mrazek
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A Certain Ageis an unconventional, evocative work of history and a moving reflection on memory, modernity, space, time, and the limitations of traditional historical narratives. Rudolf Mrázek visited Indonesia throughout the 1990s, recording lengthy interviews with elderly intellectuals in and around Jakarta. With few exceptions, they were part of an urban elite born under colonial rule and educated at Dutch schools. From the early twentieth century, through the late colonial era, the national revolution, and well into independence after 1945, these intellectuals injected their ideas of modernity, progress, and freedom into local and national discussion. When Mrázek began his interviews, he expected to discuss phenomena such as the transition from colonialism to postcolonialism. His interviewees, however, wanted to share more personal recollections. Mrázek illuminates their stories of the past with evocative depictions of their late-twentieth-century surroundings. He brings to bear insights from thinkers including Walter Benjamin, Bertold Brecht, Le Corbusier, and Marcel Proust, and from his youth in Prague, another metropolis with its own experience of passages and revolution. Architectural and spatial tropes organize the book. Thresholds, windowsills, and sidewalks come to seem more apt as descriptors of historical transitions than colonial and postcolonial, or modern and postmodern. Asphalt roads, homes, classrooms, fences, and windows organize movement, perceptions, and selves in relation to others.A Certain Ageis a portal into questions about how the past informs the present and how historical accounts are inevitably partial and incomplete.
年:
2010
出版社:
Duke University Press Books
语言:
english
页:
328
ISBN 10:
0822346974
ISBN 13:
9780822346975
文件:
PDF, 2.19 MB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2010
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