A literary mirror. Balinese reflections on modernity and identity in the twentieth century

By I Nyoman Darma Putra

Subjects: Group identity, Intellectual life, Balinese literature, Transliteration into Indonesian, Ethnology, indonesia, National characteristics, indonesian, Balinese language, Indonesian National characteristics, Literature & literary studies, Balinese (Indonesian people), History and criticism, Indonesian literature, Texts, Psychology

Description: A literary mirror" is the first English-language work to comprehensively analyse Indonesian-language literature from Bali from a literary and cultural viewpoint. It covers the period from 1920 to 2000. This is an extremely rich field for research into the ways Balinese view their culture and how they respond to external cultural forces. This work complements the large number of existing studies of Bali and its history, anthropology, traditional literature, and the performing arts. "A literary mirror" is an invaluable resource for those researching twentieth-century Balinese authors who wrote in Indonesian. Until now, such writers have received very little attention in the existing literature. An appendix gives short biographical details of many significant writers and lists their work.