/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19745019]

Has this region (Malesia/Malay Archipelago) wrote anything worth reading? It's honestly a complete black hole for me knowledge wise.

[Anonymous No.19745035]

>>19745019
Bump for interest my friend

[Anonymous No.19745044]

>>19745019
>It's honestly a complete black hole for me knowledge wise.
Not even your fault, really. SEA is literally the most irrelevant part of the world.

[Anonymous No.19745052]

>>19745044
>Not even your fault, really. SEA is literally the most irrelevant part of the world.
Yeah? Well that's not what your mum said when I asked if she'd like to SEA my dick!

[Anonymous No.19745071]

>>19745052

[Anonymous No.19745116]

>>19745052
the CIA would have had to torture me to get me to post this on the internet

[Anonymous No.19745142]

>>19745019
I have this novel, it was pretty good.

[Anonymous No.19745162]

>>19745019
indonesian here, what do you want to find specifically, OP?

[Anonymous No.19745210]

Indonesian here. Right now there aren't. But someday there will be. Once I publish my magnum opus on philosophy. Right now I'm just studying metaphysics in general from Atlas of Reality. But soon, I want to take on contemporary philosophical questions. Particularly, what interests me the most is the Hard Problem of Consciousness.

[Anonymous No.19745263]

max havelaar

[Anonymous No.19745313]

>>19745019
There are many classics, but I'm afraid that most of them don't have english translation yet. You may start with pic related, OP. >>19745142 also a good read and Kurniawan's other book "Beauty is a Wound" as well. I haven't read them all though. i'm indonesian but i rarely read book from my country, to be honest

[Anonymous No.19745441]

Het land van herkomst

[Anonymous No.19745464]

>>19745052
Thanks I'm gonna post this on 9gag.

[Anonymous No.19745502]

>>19745019
There's a whole bunch of Philippine lit but it's only available in Filipino or Spanish. English translations for them exist but are somewhat rare

[Anonymous No.19745552]

>>19745502
The Philippines is the only country who read their literature in translations lol.

[Anonymous No.19746023]

>>19745019
they´re a fellaheen culture, no different from africans

[Anonymous No.19746815]

>>19745019
I heard good about Pramoedya Ananta Toer.

[Anonymous No.19746834]

>>19745019
There are some decent Singaporean books and I don't know about Filipino literature but I know they have some good movies.

[Anonymous No.19746835]

>>19745052
dam son

[Anonymous No.19746861]

>>19745502
Bumping this, although some of the more popular novels do have common English translations. These include:
>Noli me Tangere and El Filibusterismo
>America is in The Heart
>Nick Joaquin's Tropical Gothic stories

[Anonymous No.19746906]

picrel is the only Southeast Asian book I know (Malaysian)

[Anonymous No.19746951]

>>19745019
The good bits of Philippine literature is kinda hard to get by, my local library's Filipiniana section is the only one that holds an extant print of Apóstol's work for example. But you can scour the whole internet someone's got to scanned something...don't know if it'd be worth it though

Flavio Zaragoza y Cano
Cecilio Apóstol
Flavio Zaragoza y Cano
José Cecilio Corazón de Jesús
Manuel Bernabe
José García Villa
José Rizal
Florentino Collantes

[Anonymous No.19746956]

Hermann Detzner's First World War memoir Four Years Among the Cannibals
Carl Hoffman's Savage Harvest about Michael Rockefeller's disappearance

[Anonymous No.19748438]

>>19746951
You forgot Jesus Balmori. His Spanish works are great. Its available online.

[Anonymous No.19748508]

>>19745019
Filipinobro here. Gonna share with you some genuine classics from my country. The first two are from our National hero and most famous author (both local and internationally). The third one in the bottom is by a Poet who was friends with American writers such as E.E. Cummings and Conrad Aiken

[Anonymous No.19748523]

>>19745502
>Available only in Filipino and Spanish

Look harder. There's tons of English translations of them online, most especially from authors like Jose Rizal and Jose Garcia Villa. (I know because I had to study these people for years)

[Anonymous No.19748530]

>>19748438
>>19746951
I like the elite Spanish Philippines, makes it feel nice have the Spain connection

[Anonymous No.19748556]

>>19745019
In Anthropological terms its home to some fascinating cultures. Gamelan music is beautiful and complex yet completely different from western traditions. How indonesian culture proved influential amongst western artists such as claude debussy john cage or antonin artaud and philosophers like gregory bateson or gilles deleuze. The island of bali in particular preserved many peculiar traits from before the arrival of islam. See books such as clifford geertz' negara the theater state in 19th century bali or bateson and mead's photographic exploration of balinese character, lansing's priests and programmers technologies of power in the engineered landscape. How traditional balinese culture prefigured 20th century ideas on systems thinking ecology and cybernetics.
After WWII there was a deliberate effort to reshape american (and world) culture on the model of bali. To go Beyond the troubling western tendency for climax(which means the bomb or communist revolution) into a culture based on sustained plateaux of intensity.


Spookiest fact i know obamas mom was one of the state's departments anthropologists in Java

[Anonymous No.19748569]

>>19748556
https://youtu.be/Z8YC0dnj4Jw

[࿇ C Œ M G E N V S ࿇ !Ry9RIEstm6 No.19748728]

EL ÚNICO PAÍS OCEÁNICO DE EL CUAL HAN SALIDO OBRAS LITERARIAS DE MÉRITO Y VALOR ES FILIPINAS; FILIPINAS ES EL ÚNICO PAÍS OCEÁNICO QUE ES CATÓLICO, Y TAMBIÉN EL ÚNICO HISPÁNICO: MERA COINCIDENCIA FORTUITA? NO.

[Anonymous No.19748749]

>>19748728
Las Filipinas no es más Hispano.

[࿇ C Œ M G E N V S ࿇ !Ry9RIEstm6 No.19748765]

>>19748749


NO SERÁ HISPANO, PERO CONTINÚA SIENDO HISPÁNICO, Y SIEMPRE LO SERÁ.

[Anonymous No.19748881]

>>19748765
I mean I like their Hispanic history and influence but it seems they're actively forgetting about that cultural history and making their own while borrowing a lot from the anglosphere specially (and obviously) from the US.
That's like saying that Spain will always be Roman while yes it's true that they speak a romantic language and they're hugely influence by the Roman empire they're their own thing.
Now that's a difference of 100 or so years of independence compared to 1600 years yes there is but it was the only analogy I could think of lol.
Anyway wasn't 31 minutos great?

[MURDOCH-CHAN No.19748884]

>>19745019
The Hispanic Empire will rise again.

[MURDOCH-CHAN No.19748886]

>>19748728
La base del Imperio Hispanico

[Anonymous No.19748911]

>>19748884
>>19748886
I mean are you joking?
I think you're putting under the wrong a lot of atrocities.
And I'm not someone here to shit all over it because I think the current status of what's left of the native population is "better" than what the French and English did (don't know about the Portuguese though)
I also don't know how much of their "better" status is a product of just circumstances or better morality/policies

[࿇ C Œ M G E N V S ࿇ !Ry9RIEstm6 No.19748919]

>>19748881
>That's like saying that Spain will always be Roman...


NO; THE ANGLIFICATION OF THE PHILIPPINES IS ACCIDENTAL, NOT ESSENTIAL; THE PHILIPPINES IS A HISPANICAL COUNTRY THAT IS BEING PHAGOCYTIZED BY THE ANGLOSPHERE.

[Anonymous No.19748922]

>>19748508
Thoughts on F. Sionil Jose now that he has passed?

[Anonymous No.19749581]

>>19748922
Arguably our best writer in English.

[Anonymous No.19749881]

>>19745019
Malaysian here. One day I will finish my 1000 page novel about the Japanese occupation of Malaya.

[Anonymous No.19749905]

What would they write about? A banana they picked from the tree, and all the underage pussy they have?

[Anonymous No.19750148]

>>19748884
>>19748886
smelly swarthy manlet hands typed this