Language Ungoverned
Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911–1949
Seiten
2021
Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University (Verlag)
978-1-5017-5822-5 (ISBN)
Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University (Verlag)
978-1-5017-5822-5 (ISBN)
By exploring a rich array of Malay texts from novels and newspapers to poems and plays, Tom G. Hoogervorst's Language Ungoverned examines how the Malay of the Chinese-Indonesian community defied linguistic and political governance under Dutch colonial rule, offering a fresh perspective on the subversive role of language in colonial power relations.
As a liminal colonial population, the ethnic Chinese in Indonesia resorted to the press for their education, legal and medical advice, conflict resolution, and entertainment. Hoogervorst deftly depicts how the linguistic choices made by these print entrepreneurs brought Chinese-inflected Malay to the fore as the language of popular culture and everyday life, subverting the official Malay of the Dutch authorities. Through his readings of Sino-Malay print culture published between the 1910s and 1940s, Hoogervorst highlights the inherent value of this vernacular Malay as a language of the people.
As a liminal colonial population, the ethnic Chinese in Indonesia resorted to the press for their education, legal and medical advice, conflict resolution, and entertainment. Hoogervorst deftly depicts how the linguistic choices made by these print entrepreneurs brought Chinese-inflected Malay to the fore as the language of popular culture and everyday life, subverting the official Malay of the Dutch authorities. Through his readings of Sino-Malay print culture published between the 1910s and 1940s, Hoogervorst highlights the inherent value of this vernacular Malay as a language of the people.
Tom G. Hoogervorst is a historical linguist at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies and author of Southeast Asia in the Ancient Indian Ocean World.
Introduction: A Prism into the Past
1. Connected Language Histories
2. On Good, Bad, and Ugly Malay
3. Printing, Pulp, and Popularity
4. Competing Expressions of Modernity
5. The Humoristic and the Invective
Epilogue: An Important Historical Monument
Erscheinungsdatum | 30.07.2021 |
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Zusatzinfo | 1 Maps; 14 Halftones, black and white |
Verlagsort | Ithaca |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 907 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-5017-5822-5 / 1501758225 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5017-5822-5 / 9781501758225 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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