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noble personality, living a life of security, happiness, and wealth. Always the daughter of a nobleman was chosen, daughter of a man of high rank and good income, at least a government official. Whereas the main male protagonist had to be an elegant, well-dressed, and stylish man, with a good salary
, consciously chose to avoid realpolitik and instead pursued the route of social engagement: a commitment to work within the local community at a grass-roots level for an improvement of the quality of life of those who were the victims of political, social and economic injustice. It is no surprise, then
brought back to life again when the king, convinced that she has proved herself a worthy consort, has decided to let his son marry her and has proposed that Inu and his wife become king and queen of Kuripan. Even then, she retains her modesty as she humbly declines being worthy to become queen of
-trading gangsters. An elaborate structure of courtly images provided them with a way of seeing their interests in more elevated terms, a way of tying their economic life into a broader series of sensual pursuits. The kingdoms of pre-colonial Bali, even more than their texts, are still a part of Balinese society
surrenders herself consciously to a certain man. And this happens without a break throughout the centuries and all over the world, amongst all nationalities and living creatures. How simple life is. It's as simple as this: you're hungry and you eat, you're full, and you shit. Between eating and shitting
. Appearances of the Indo in the works of Pramoedya and Mangunwijaya can be read as 'reinscriptions', motivated in part by a shared interest in restoring the presence of the 'outsider' in Indonesian literary discourse. No doubt authorial motivation differed in each case; Pramoedya's insistence on the
separate books, most of these translations and adaptations could be described in terms of tales of adventure and romances, rather than in terms of Bildungs roman, the genre of tales that had created the feeling of a canon in the literary life of the European masters (Moretti 1987). Presented in awkward
brothel in Aceh and that the women of that house were persuaded to return to a virtuous life by the sermons of a more moderate Sufi, Abd ar-Rauf of Singkel, who lived approximately fifty years later than Hamzah (Snouck Hurgronje 1906, 11:20). In view of the character of nyanyi and the attitude of the
his father to life (Winstedt 1991:169-70; compare the healing of the princess with a magical means received from Langkurba; Ali bin Ahmad 1968:268-72). Hikayat Indraputra contains a number of motifs, which may originate from the tale of Ceke1 Waneng Pati.17 - The desire to have offspring, which
much, This is the way for a lie to creep in. The one who spends much time in bed Just fritters his life away. However, even much earlier, in the second half of the seventeenth century, gurindam were incorporated into Hikayat Isma Yatim, for instance: Yang kebaktianku ini tuanku mahamulia, Juga