Print, Poetics, and Politics: A Sumatran Epic in the Colonial Indies and New Order Indonesia

by Susan Rodgers

This study presents the text and first English translation of a Sumatran turi-turian or chanted epic called the tale of Datuk Tuongku Aji Malim Leman, the hero s name. This is a famous southern Batak story from the town of Sipirok. The version at issue, in the Angkola Batak language, was published as a folkloric but also rather novelistic printed paperback book for a popular southern Batak audience in 1941, at the end of Dutch colonial rule...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9067182338
• ISBN13: 9789067182331
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 333 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.4"