Title: Romanschrijvers and Wartawan Ksatria: Politically oriented Sumatran novelists during the long 1940s Speakers: William Bradley Horton, researcher at Organization for Japan-U.S. Studies, Waseda University Date: April 16th (Thursday), 2015, 13:30 - Place: Tonan-tei Room No. 201, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, CSEAS, Kyoto University   Abstract: Between 1938-1942, Sumatra was the center of an Indonesian language publication boom,including newspapers, fiction, and even non-fiction works. Particularly spectacular was the sudden appearance of literary periodicals like Alhambra, Roman Pergaoelan, Doenia Pengalaman, and Loekisan Poedjangga, modeled after the tremendously successful Sino-Malay Tjerita Romans and Pengidoepan which had been published on Java since the mid-1920s. Central to the publishing boom was a complex of [ Read More ]