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3 - Remembering Java

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2019

Ronit Ricci
Affiliation:
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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This chapter draws on materials from colonial Ceylon to explore both personal and collective expressions of memory as it relates to the archipelago and especially to Java, and considers the shifts occurring in these memories’ construction and representation with the passage of time. In addressing textualized memories and links to the archipelago, it expands the discussion of these themes presented in Chapter 2, but differs in the writing genres it explores, their tone and their atmosphere. Whereas Chapter 2 focused on intellectual and religious currents of connectivity and memory, the present chapter engages with individual voices and traditions of storytelling and cultural heroes as transmitted to the diaspora. More specifically, the analysis draws on a clandestine exchange of letters written by royal exiles in the early eighteenth century and on evidence of the transmission of the Javanese wali sanga tradition (on the "nine saints" said to have converted Java to Islam) to the Ceylon disapora.

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Banishment and Belonging
Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka and Ceylon
, pp. 49 - 75
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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  • Remembering Java
  • Ronit Ricci, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Book: Banishment and Belonging
  • Online publication: 11 November 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108648189.004
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  • Remembering Java
  • Ronit Ricci, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Book: Banishment and Belonging
  • Online publication: 11 November 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108648189.004
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  • Remembering Java
  • Ronit Ricci, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Book: Banishment and Belonging
  • Online publication: 11 November 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108648189.004
Available formats
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