Shadow and Sound: The Historical Thought of Sumatran People

Atjeh was a kingdom in northern Sumatra which had a long history of rebellion and unrest. As a Mulim Sultanate from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, Atjeh engaged in internal political struggle. Since the nineteenth century, Atjeh has been under Dutch, Japanese, or Indonesian control - domination to which the Atjeh never passively yielded. In Shadow and Sound James Siegel arges that the Atjehnese view of history, as expressed in the language of their epic poetry, is based not on the fixing of historical fact, but on a flow of words that is actually immune to the past.

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First Edition. Size: 8vo - over 7.75 - 9.75" tall. xii + 284pp. Internally clean. Binding firm. Dust jacket worn, chipped and creased, with faded spine and a couple of tape repairs. Top edge slightly marked. Boards slightly bowed.