Lost Times and Untold Tales from the Malay WorldJan van der Putten, Mary Kilcline Cody How did the Komodo dragon influence Hollywood? What do Wanted posters reveal about the Wild Wild East? Was the hapless explorer a martyr to science or a gaseous windbag? Why were colonial officials secret pill poppers? Did bicycles really promote Women's Lib? Who went looking for love in all the wrong places? What do you do at the Get-Rich-Quick-Tree? The answers to these and many other questions are found in the witty, useful, informative, amusing and sometimes amazing stories that make up this collection. Inspired by the wry yet deeply scholarly prespectives of Australian philologist Ian Proudfoot, the editors of Lost Times and Untold Tales from the Malay World bring together a distinguished group of international scholars who look at calendars and time, royal myths, colonial expeditions, printing, propaganda, theatre, art, Islamic manuscripts, erotic literature, and many other topics from wholly unexpected angles. The book demonstrates the spectacular diversity of scholarship on the Malay World, and shows that offbeat texts can produce fascinating new insights into the past. |
Contents
Significant Time Myths and Power in the Javanese Calendar | 1 |
How Surakarta was Founded on the Wrong Day | 17 |
An Excursion to Javas GetRichQuick Tree | 33 |
Lord Hunting Tiger and Malay Learning in Japan Before the War | 54 |
A Paler Shade of White | 82 |
The Perils of Propaganda | 97 |
Wanted | 114 |
In Search of Fatimah | 129 |
A Social History | 198 |
Faust does Nusantara | 227 |
Finding Love in Hikayat Raja Kulawandu | 241 |
The Thread of Eroticism in Faridah Hanom An Early Malay | 257 |
Sayyid Uthman 18221914 of | 283 |
The Translation of Matthes | 304 |
Was the Mousedeer Peranakan? In Search of Chinese Islamic | 319 |
From Bustan to Taman | 339 |
Reflections on the Mysticism of Shams alDin alSamatrai | 148 |
Muhammad Yusuf Ahmad and | 164 |
Fr Pécot and the Earliest Catholic Imprints in Malay | 177 |
Bibliography | 357 |
Contributors | 384 |
Common terms and phrases
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