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A Certain Age de Rudolf Mrázek

A Certain Age

Autor Rudolf Mrázek
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 apr 2010

Observăm în literatura academică dedicată istoriei Asiei de Sud-Est o tendință de a analiza tranziția de la colonialism la independență prin prisma marilor narațiuni politice, neglijând adesea textura senzorială a memoriei individuale. A Certain Age vine să completeze exact această lacună, propunând o istorie neconvențională a Jakartei, filtrată prin amintirile unei elite intelectuale urbane formate sub dominație olandeză. Suntem de părere că forța acestui volum rezidă în refuzul lui Rudolf Mrázek de a se conforma tiparelor istoriografice rigide; în loc de cronologii seci, autorul explorează modul în care modernitatea a fost trăită la nivelul străzii, al asfaltului și al ferestrelor. Subliniem modul în care Rudolf Mrázek își rafinează abordarea față de lucrările sale anterioare. Dacă în Engineers of Happy Land se concentra pe conceptualizarea tehnologiei și a infrastructurii în Indonezia colonială, în acest volum el mută focarul către fenomenologia spațiului locuit și a trecerii timpului. Lucrarea completează perspectiva oferită de The Appearances of Memory de Abidin Kusno, adăugând o dimensiune profund personală și literară analizei arhitecturale a Jakartei. Acolo unde Kusno vede conștiință politică în mediul construit, Mrázek descoperă melancolie, continuitate și fragmente de identitate care sfidează etichetele de „modern” sau „postmodern”. Stilul este unul evocator, ancorat în referințe culturale europene precum Proust sau Benjamin, reflectând paradoxul subiecților săi: intelectuali indonezieni a căror viziune despre progres și libertate a fost modelată de o educație europeană. Această ediție publicată de Duke University Press nu este doar un studiu regional, ci o meditație asupra limitelor istoriei de a recupera trecutul în totalitatea sa.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822346975
ISBN-10: 0822346974
Pagini: 328
Ilustrații: 6 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Duke University Press

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor interesați de istoria mentalităților și de modul în care spațiul urban modelează memoria. A Certain Age oferă o perspectivă rară asupra intelectualității indoneziene, transformând interviurile orale într-o analiză filosofică despre modernitate. Este un volum esențial pentru cei care doresc să înțeleagă cum se resimte trecerea imperiilor la nivelul vieții cotidiene, dincolo de datele statistice sau evenimentele politice majore.

Descriere scurtă

A Certain Age is an unconventional, evocative work of history and a series of moving reflections on memory, modernity, space and time, and the limitations of traditional historical narratives. Throughout the 1990s, Rudolf Mrázek visited Indonesia, where he recorded lengthy interviews with elderly intellectuals in and around Jakarta. With few exceptions, they were part of an urban elite born under colonial rule and educated at Dutch schools. Since the early twentieth century, through the late colonial era and national revolution, and well into independence after 1945, these intellectuals were prominent in Jakarta, where they injected their ideas of modernity, progress, and freedom into local and national discussion. When he began his interviews, Mrázek expected to discuss phenomena such as the transition from colonialism to postcolonialism. His interviewees wanted to share more personal recollections. Their stories form the backbone of A Certain Age. Fragments of their conversations are embedded in descriptions of the locations where the interviews were conducted. Mrázek brings to bear insights from thinkers including Walter Benjamin, Bertold Brecht, Le Corbusier, and Marcel Proust, and from his own reflections on looking back at his youth in communist Czechoslovakia two decades after the end of communist rule. Architectural and spatial tropes organize the book. Thresholds, windowsills, and sidewalks come to seem more apt as descriptors of historical transitions than colonial and postcolonial or modern and postmodern. Asphalt-covered surfaces, homes, classrooms, fences, and windows organize movement, perceptions, and selves in relation to others. A Certain Age is a portal into questions about how the past informs the present and how historical accounts are inevitably partial and incomplete.

Recenzii

“In this original and very exciting work Rudolf Mrázek offers a stimulating way of thinking about historiography and a radical departure from the ways ‘we in the field’ are used to thinking and talking about the history of Indonesia. A rich text, resistant to generalizations, A Certain Age is evocative, moving, personal, disruptive, and subversive. It is a must-read.”—Henk Maier, author of We Are Playing Relatives: A Survey of Malay Writing“By juxtaposing Indonesian and European voices, Rudolf Mrázek compels us to reconsider the unsettling origins and effects of modernity in the colony and metropole alike. In his nuanced, brilliantly edited interviews, aging urban revolutionaries remember the past amid and in relation to the noise of the street and the neighborhood, the music of salons and cinemas, the stuttering bursts of translations and trains, and the routine hum of the prison camp and the classroom. They convey the force of a history that remains bound to—yet is not reducible to—narration and analysis.”—Vicente L. Rafael, author of The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines
"...a subtle, layered, and subversive book, with its deep reflections on the powers of memory and the interpenetrations of past and present. Mrazek has achieved what very few academics are capable of: in recording his encounters with these remarkable Indonesians, he has incidentally inscribed in these pages a most endearing portrait of himself. Read it, whether or not you already have any addiction to Indonesia, or to life stories." - Roxana Waterson, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, August 2012 "In this original and very exciting work Rudolf Mrazek offers a stimulating way of thinking about historiography and a radical departure from the ways 'we in the field' are used to thinking and talking about the history of Indonesia. A rich text, resistant to generalizations, A Certain Age is evocative, moving, personal, disruptive, and subversive. It is a must-read." - Henk Maier, author of We Are Playing Relatives "By juxtaposing Indonesian and European voices, Rudolf Mrazek compels us to reconsider the unsettling origins and effects of modernity in the colony and metropole alike. In his nuanced, brilliantly edited interviews, aging urban revolutionaries remember the past amid and in relation to the noise of the street and the neighborhood, the music of salons and cinemas, the stuttering bursts of translations and trains, and the routine hum of the prison camp and the classroom. They convey the force of a history that remains bound to--yet is not reducible to--narration and analysis." - Vicente L. Rafael, author of The Promise of the Foreign

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"In juxtaposing Indonesian and European voices from the 1930s to the 1990s, Rudolf Mrazek compels us to reconsider the unsettling because of contemporaneous origins and effects of modernity in the colony and metropole alike. In his highly textured and brilliantly edited interviews with aging urban revolutionaries, he shows how remembering the past entails recalling its traces archived and activated in voices animated by the noise of the street and the neighborhood, the music of salons and cinemas, the stuttering bursts of translations and trains, the routine hum of prison camp and classroom. They thus convey the force of a certain history that remains bound to yet irreducible to narration and analysis."--Vicente Rafael, author of" The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines"

Descriere

An ethnographic study of Jakarta, derived from the author's interviews with the city's elderly residents.