Admission requirements
The course can be taken by:
The third year students from Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies Leiden University.
Students, including the exchange program students (BA and Master), who have followed course(s) about Indonesia in the fields of socio-culture, politics and media, even more so its literature.
Description
This course introduces students to modern Indonesian literature. The course will cover modern Indonesian literary texts from different genres which cover socio-cultural and political contexts of late colonial and post-independence Indonesia.
Class discussion will mainly focus on reading of Indonesian literary texts and/or their translation, and their textual analysis from sociology of literature perspective using secondary and theoretical readings. The teaching material consists of selected texts in Indonesian (short stories, sections from drama scripts, sections from novels and dime novels, travelogues, poems, cultural essays, etc.) together with chosen secondary and theoretical readings. The students will also be introduced to history of Indonesian literary traditions.
Course objectives
Students will be familiar with advanced Indonesian written texts in literary field;
Students will be comprehended the history of Indonesian literature;
Students will be familiar with major themes, genres, and important authors in Indonesian literature in late colonial and post-independence Indonesia;
Students will gain a better insight of using tools of literary interpretation and textual analysis in order to understand the underlying socio-cultural and political context of late colonial and contemporary Indonesian society.
Timetable
The timetables are available through My Timetable.
Tuesday, 13.15–15.00
Mode of instruction
SeminarAssessment consists of following components:
Weekly assignments: 10%;
A mid-term essay, 1000 words (+/- 10%) on Indonesian literary works: 30%;
A final paper 3500 words (+/- 10%) on Indonesian literary works, exluding references: 50%;
Attendance, class preparation and participation: 10%
Attending all seminar sessions is compulsory. If you are unable to attend a session, please inform your lecturer in advance. Please note that being absent at any session may have a negative impact on the grade of the assignment due for that particular tutorial session. This is at the discretion of the lecturer.
The final mark for the course is established by determining the weighted average. To pass the course, the weighted average of the partial grades must be 5.5 or higher.
To pass the course, students must have contributed actively to at least 75% of the class meetings and receive an overall mark of “5.50” (= 6) or higher.
Attendance and participation are obligatory. Classes missed for a good reason (to the discretion of the conveners and to be discussed BEFORE the class takes place) will have to be made up with an extra assignment. Being absent without notification can result in a lower grade or exclusion from the term end exams and a failing grade for the course.
Being absent will result in a lowering of the In-class performance & participation grade with 0.5 for every absence after the first five (2) times.
Assessment method
Assessment
Assessment consists of following components:
Attendance, class preparation and participation: 10% of final grade
Weekly assignments: 10%
A mid-term essay (interpretation of an Indonesian short story or poem prepared at home by student and to be uploaded by Turnitin on Brightspace: 30%
A final paper 3000-4000 words, exluding references (assessment of text and critical analyses prepared at home by student and to be uploaded by Turnitin on Brightspace): 50%
In order to pass the course, students must obtain an overall mark of “5.50” (=6) or higher.
Weighing
The end grade of the course is established by determining the weighted average of all assessment components.
Resit
If you fail this course, you can resubmit an improved version of your final paper (60% of the final grade). In case of resubmission of this paper (insufficient final grade only). The deadline for resubmission is 10 working days after receiving the grade for the paper.
Inspection and feedback
How and when an exam review will take place will be disclosed together with the publication of the exam results at the latest. If a student requests a review within 30 days after publication of the exam results, an exam review will have to be organized.
Reading list
Fery, Paul H. 2012. Theory of Literature. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Hall, John A. 1979. The sociology of literature. London [etc.]: Longman.
Varga, Károly. 2019. “The sociological approach of literature”, in: Lajos Nyiro (Ed.), Literature and its interpretation, pp. 231-302. Berlin; Boston: The Gruyter Mouton [e-book version]
Teeuw, A. 1979. Modern Indonesian literature. The Hague: Nijhoff (2 vols.)
Foulcher, Keith. 1980. Pujangga Baru: literature and nationalism in Indonesia, 1933-1942. [Bedford Park, South Australia: Flinders University].
Foulcher, Keith. 1968.‘Manifest kebudayaan’: the struggle for cultural and intellectual freedom and its relation to modern Indonesian poetry. Sydney: Department of Indonesia & Malayan Studies, University of Sydney.
Foulcher, Keith. 1982. Social commitment in literature and the arts: the Indonesia ‘Institute of People’s Culture’ 1950-1965. Clayton: Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University.
Hellwig, Tineke. 1994. In the shadow of change: of women in Indonesian literature. Berkeley, Califonia: Centers for South and Southeast Asia Studies, University of California at Berkeley.
Foulcher, Keith and Tony Day. 2002. Clearing a space: postcolonial readings of modern Indonesian literature. Leiden: KITLV Press.
Bodden, Michael H. 2010. Resistance on the national stage: theater and politics in late New Order Indonesia. Athens: Ohio University Press.
Danerek, Stefan. 2005. The short story genre in Indonesia: post new order literature. Lund: Department of East Asian Languages, Lund University.
Danerek, Stefan. 2013. “Cerpen koran: its canon and counter-world”, Indonesia and the Malay World 41 (121): 418-438.
Suryadi. 2019. “Roman Medan: the nature and socio-political context of a corpus in Sumatran popular literature, 1930s-1960s”, Malay Literature 32(2): 207-238.
Registration
Enrolment through uSis is mandatory.
General information about uSis is available on the website.
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Contact
For substantive questions, contact the lecturer listed in the right information bar.
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Remarks
Brightspace is used for: Announcements Syllabus and other relevant informations about the course Course materials Submission of assignments by students Information about exams
Registration for the course on Brightspace is essential. Instructor will not serve students who are not registered in Brightspace.
The course does not receive sit-in students.
Plagiarism is understood as presenting, intentionally or otherwise, someone else’s words, thoughts, analyses, argumentations, pictures, techniques, computer programmes, etc., as your own work. Seehttp://www.regulations.leiden.edu/education-students/plagiarism.html for Leiden University’s policy on plagiarism.