Language and Power : Exploring Political Cultures in Indonesia

在這本生動的書中，Benedict R. O'G Anderson探討了印度尼西亞歷史上兩個關鍵事實引起的文化和政治矛盾 - 雖然印度尼西亞民族很年輕，但印度尼西亞國家很古老，起源於十七世紀初。荷蘭人的征服;當代政治是用一種新的語言，印度尼西亞語，由人民（特別是爪哇人）進行的，他們的文化植根於中世紀。通過分析從古典詩歌到公共紀念碑和漫畫的一系列例子，Anderson加深了我們對現代與傳統權力概念、語言力量冥想和民族意識發展之間相互作用的理解。本卷匯集了Anderson的八個概念。在過去二十年中寫的最有影響力的文章。

大多數論文都涉及爪哇政治文化的各個方面 - 從十九世紀初開始，當時爪哇人還沒有通過20世紀早期的民族主義，到世界之後獨立時代的政治、殖民主義、社會或階級的話語。第二次世界大戰時，內部緊張局勢爆發成大規模屠殺。在第一組文章中，Anderson考慮了傳統爪哇社會如何設想權力，以及這些想像如何塑造了印度尼西亞的現代政治。其他文章關注的是現代印度尼西亞人所想像的平等主義，鐵藝民族語言與等級，專制的爪哇官方文化的強大影響之間的不一致的重要性。

最後，兩篇關於意識的論文闡明了印尼民族主義運動興起之前和之後的關鍵時期。一個反映了爪哇知識分子的幻想努力，以保持想像“爪哇”，因為該島被殖民資本主義所侵占，並被吸收到巨大的，異質的荷屬東印度群島;第二部分通過一位傑出的爪哇第一代民族主義政治家的自傳追溯了從舊文化到新國家的過渡。

In this lively book, Benedict R. O'G Anderson explores the cultural and political contradictions that have arisen from two critical facts in Indonesian history-that while the Indonesian nation is young, the Indonesian state is ancient, originating in the early seventeenth-century Dutch conquests; and that contemporary politics are conducted in a new language, Bahasa Indonesia, by peoples (especially the Javanese) whose cultures are rooted in medieval times. Analyzing a spectrum of examples from classical poetry to public monuments and cartoons, Anderson deepens our understanding of the interaction between modern and traditional notions of power, the meditation of power by language, and the development of national consciousness.This volume brings together eight of Anderson's most influential essays written over the past two decades.

Most of the essays address aspects of Javanese political culture-from the early nineteenth century, when the Javanese did not yet have words for politics, colonialism, society, or class, through the early nationalism of the 1900s, to the era of independence after World War II, when deep internal tensions exploded into large-scale massacres. In the first group of essays Anderson considers how power was imagined in traditional Javanese society, and how these imaginings shaped Indonesia's modern politics. Other essays focus on the significance of the incongruences between the egalitarian, ironizing national language through which modern Indonesia has been imagined and the powerful influence of the hierarchical, authoritarian Javanese official culture.

Finally, two essays on consciousness illuminate the crucial eras before and after the rise of Indonesia's nationalist movement. One reflects on Javanese intellectuals' phantasmagoric efforts to keep imagining "Java" as the island was overrun by colonial capitalism and absorbed into the huge, heterogeneous Netherlands East Indies; the second traces the transition from old culture to new nation through the autobiography of an eminent Javanese first-generation nationalist politician.

Benedict R. O'G. Anderson (Autor) 

Publisher:Campus Verlag 

ISBN:   978-0801497582 

原價  US  22.50   台幣價 NT$880