Presented by Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing
Silenced Voices: New Writing from Indonesia
Frank Stewart, editor; John McGlynn, feature editor
Silenced Voices presents contemporary writing from Indonesia, and at the same time a selection of fiction, poetry and essays from throughout the Pacific region. Many of the Indonesian writers in the volume were imprisoned or persecuted for their opposition to the country’s authoritarian governments and draconian restrictions on freedom of expression. Guest editor John H. McGlynn gathered the Indonesian writing, most of it banned or censored work and appearing in English for the first time.
ESSAYS
Between the Bars, 25
Hersri Setiawan
Silenced Voices, Muted Expressions: Indonesian Literature Today, 38
John H. McGlynn
Three Women, 48
Sujinah
Toward Independence: A Century of Indonesia Photographed, 71
Jane Levy Reed
Two Essays, 151
Xue Di
I, the Accused, 193
Abdul Latief
FICTION
Within the Silk Hangings of Our Canopy Bed, 1
Willis Barnstone
Village Dancer, 13
Ahmad Tohari
A Bad Joke, 147
Ha Jin
An Activist in New York, 169
Ayu Utami
The Incident, 203
Seno Gumira Ajidarma
Leftover Soul, 214
Putu Oka Sukanta
The Bird, 230
Albert Wendt
DRAMA
The King’s Witch, 65
Goenawan Mohamad
Marsinah Accuses, 155
Ratna Sarumpaet
INTERVIEW
Fear of the Word: A Conversation with Will Schwalbe on Publishing Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 183
Harold Augenbraum
SYMPOSIUM ON TRANSLATING ASIAN POETRY
The Poem behind the Poem: Literary Translation As American Poetry, 74
Willis Barnstone, Mark Bender, William I. Elliot, Ok-Koo Kang Grosjean, Jane Hirshfield, Leza Lowitz, Ken McCullough, Shogo Oketani, J.P. Seaton, Eric Selland, Gary Snyder, and Michelle Yeh
POETRY
Two Poems, 10
Arthur Sze
Stand behind the Dead, 199
Xue Di
from Minding the Darkness, 224
Peter Dale Scott
Reviews, 242