INDONESIAN LITERATURE Flashcards
5 main islands of Indonesia.
Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Jawa, and Papua
Saman
Ayu Tami
(Translator: Pamela Allen)
Bumi Manusia/The Earth of Mankind
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
(Translator; Maxwell Lane)
The Tea Lords
Hella S Haasse
(Translator: Ina Rike)
The Year of Living Dangerously
Christoper Koch
(Originally appeared in english)
A woman’s portrait or _____ in Indonesia.
Lukisan Wanita
This poem is written in 1989 which focused on a life of pregnant women in Indonesia.
A Woman’s Portrait 1938
Author of A Woman’s Portrait.
Toeti Heraty
(Translator: Ulrich Kratz)
Author of Too-Too-Moo and the Giant
Aaron Shepard
Meaning of Pujangga
poet
Lama means
old
It is a lively oral tradition using traditional Malay-language literature.
Pujangga Lama
A kind of poetry that is made up of four-line verses, which are sometime called quatrains
Syair
Is an epic poem with intricate language and structure, and it’s been impossible for translators to do it full justice in English.
Syair Bidasari
What is the name of the heroin
Bidasari
Instead of magic mirror, the queen has ____
human spies
Instead of eating a poisoned apple and falling asleep, Bidasari has her life ties to a ____
magical fish
Is a tale about prince Kertapati of Kuripa, who is destined to marry a princess from a neighboring kingdom.
Syair Ken Tambuhan
Quatrains made up of two seemingly disconnected couplets.
Pantun
A Malay verde form consisting of four lines rhyming abab
Pantun
One of the finest literary and historical works in the Malay language.
Sejarah Melayu
It consists of a collection of stories, not historically connected, focusing on the activities of the Malaccan sultans, their courts, and government officials.
Sejarah Melayu
Is a type of irregular verse forms of traditional Malay poetry.
Gurindam (brief aphorisms)
It is a combination of two clauses where the relative clause forms a line and thus linked to the second line, or the main clause.
Gurindam (brief aphorisms)
first line of gurindam
syarat (protasis)
second line of gurindam
jawab (apodosis)
One of the most well-known literary works on Gurindam was the ____
Gurindam Dua Belas (Twelve Gurindam)
Who wrote Gurindam Dua Belas (Twelve Gurindam)?
Raja Ali Haji
