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Michael Bodden
Michael Bodden is Professor of Pacific and Asian Studies at the University of Victoria. He is author of Resistance on the National Stage: Theater and Politics in Late New Order Indonesia (2010) and edited the second volume of The Lontar Anthology of Indonesian Drama (Building a National Theatre) to which he also contributed translations of several plays. He has published widely on Indonesian theatre, literature, and popular culture, and has translated the fiction, poetry, and plays of Indonesian writers such as Putu Wijaya, Nurhidayat Poso, Afrizal Malna, and Seno Gumira Ajidarma.

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January 2014

Textile

Orly Castel-Bloom

TR. Dalya Bilu

fiction

January 2014

It was not only avoiding thoughts of home that helped the good sniper to carry out his mission as...

fiction

February 2012

A Gift from Bill Gates

Wu Ang

TR. Nicky Harman

fiction

February 2012

My name is Mr Thousands and I’ve worked in all sorts of jobs. Most recently, I’ve been spending my...

feature

July 2013

The New Writing

César Aira

TR. Rahul Bery

feature

July 2013

The way I see it, the avant-garde emerged at a point when the professionalisation of artists had consumed itself...

 

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