![]() ![]() Babad Jaka Tingkir, the historical prophecy that Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future translates and reads, is uniquely suited for such a study. ![]() She then undertakes a richly textured reading of the poem that discloses how it manages to escape the fixing of 'tradition.' Adopting a dialogic strategy of reading, Florida writes to extend-as the work’s Javanese author demands-this history’s prophetic potential into a more global register. Florida provides a nuanced translation of this particular traditional history, a history composed in poetry as the dream of a mysterious exile. After introducing the colonial and postcolonial orientalist projects that would fix the meaning of traditional writing in Java, Nancy K.
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