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Asia Tenggara telah lama dikenal memiliki, mengakui, dan melegitimasi tradisi gender dan seksualitas yang lebih beragam dan pluralistik daripada belahan dunia lainnya. Bukti-bukti sejarah dan etnografis menunjukkan bahwa praktik-praktik dan identitas transgender, serta berbagai macam seksualitas non-heteronormatif, mempunyai sejarah yang panjang dan terhormat di Asia Tenggara dan wilayah Asia Pasifik secara keseluruhan. Namun dalam tiga hingga empat abad terakhir, pluralisme gender ini mengalami banyak penyempitan dan erosi legitimasi.

Categories:  social science
Tags:anthropology, gender-sexuality, history, social science
December 22, 2010 7:48 am | 8 Comments

An incestuous relationship between a pair of Greek siblings (adorable yia yia and pou pou!) consummated on a ship fleeing to the US from the Turkish raid at the beginning of the century, resulting in a pair of recessive genes finally reunited in a hermaphrodite of a grandchild (with a science geek turned John Lennon wannabe for an older brother)

Categories:  fiction
Tags:20th-century, fiction, historical-fiction
7:43 am | No Comments

Miskin, banyak anak, Katolik, di era berkuasanya Partai Komunis Hongaria pada akhir tahun 1960an, itulah gambaran singkat keadaan keluarga Anak Kesembilan. Anak-anak ini—dalam satu hal atau lainnya—mempunyai berbagai kelainan seperti cacat bicara, sering sakit kepala, dan sebagainya. Setelah memenangkan kompetisi Rumah untuk Keluarga Besar yang diiklankan di koran Manusia Baru, mereka membangun dan menanti-nantikan kepindahan mereka ke Rumah Besar.

Categories:  fiction
Tags:Books-in-Indonesian-Language, Eastern-Europe, fiction
April 27, 2010 5:55 am | No Comments

Ups and Downs memberi gambaran lugas, bahkan cenderung pesimis, kehidupan di Hindia pada akhir abad ke-19 tanpa menonjolkan heroisme pengarang (ataupun alter ego)nya. Dengan setting periode yang berdekatan, Ups and Downs menampilkan potret jujur konflik dan intrik kehidupan di perkebunan Hindia: bergelimang harta, mengadakan jamuan-jamuan mewah dan bertamu-tamuan yang tak kunjung usai.

Categories:  fiction, Indonesia
Tags:fiction, Indonesia
3:10 am | No Comments

Various theories and visual methodologies, emphasising the ubiquity of visual materials in today’s culture.

Categories:  America, science, social science
Tags:social science
July 26, 2009 1:13 am | 1 Comment

Writings on International Film Art
by Bert Cardullo (2004)

A collection of selected Cardullo’s essays previously published in quarterlies.

Categories:  Cardullo, Bert, essays & criticism, film
Tags:cinema, film
April 21, 2008 3:15 am | 1 Comment

by Orhan Pamuk (1990)

Embarking on a journey to find his missing wife and her ex-husband, Galip obsessively searches for (and drowns in) endless possible meanings and leads.

Categories:  fiction, Pamuk, Orhan, short stories, Turkey
Tags:fiction, thriller, Turkey, Turkish-Literature
April 10, 2008 2:11 am | No Comments

by Orhan Pamuk (1995)

A young student who became obsessed about a book, as well as those who have read it, looking for some sorts of answers, common threads, and comparisons to how the book affects their lives and gives the possibility of a new life

Categories:  fiction, Pamuk, Orhan, Turkey
Tags:metafiction, thriller, Turkey, Turkish-Literature
March 25, 2008 4:00 am | 1 Comment

by Marjen Satrapi (2001)

An autobiographical bande dessinée about a girl growing up in revolutionary & war-torn Iran and abroad in Vienna.

Categories:  biography & memoirs, France, history, Iran, Satrapi, Marjene
Tags:bande-dessinée, comic, graphic-novel
February 9, 2008 2:35 am | No Comments

by Roberto Bolaño (2000)

A deathbed confession of a priest and literary critic, set during the transition from Allende to Pinochet.

Categories:  Bolaño Roberto, fiction, Latin America
Tags:Chile, historical-fiction, Latin America
January 31, 2008 4:26 pm | No Comments