Practical examples and theoretical reflections on the do's and don'ts of using digital tools for your study and research in African and Asian Studies.
In this essay, I explore how we can read Indonesian literature in a way that preserves the highly particular and context-bound character of individual literary works while also accounting for the heterogeneity of Indonesian literature as a whole. Continue reading Texts in Their Right Places: A Situated Reading of a Situated Literature
In this essay, I argue for an alternative approach to reading Indonesian literature, referred to as distant reading, which challenges canonical hierarchies and contributes to a more critical model of Indonesian literature. I develop the argument in three parts: I first introduce the concept of distant reading, then situate it in the context of Indonesian literature. Finally, I turn to my digital project, a growing, machine-readable corpus of Indonesian literary texts, largely drawn from online periodicals and archives, which I use to experiment with distant reading as a way of “undoing” the Indonesian canon. Continue reading Undoing the Canon: How Distant Reading Contributes to a Critical Model of Indonesian Literature