Money, Morality, and Modernity: A Javanese Remake of a 1930 American Whodunnit in 1960s Indonesia

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E.P. Wieringa
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Abstract

Abstract Suparto Brata (1932–2015) belongs to the pioneers of the Western model of the whodunnit in modern Javanese literature. His early (1962) work Pethité Njai Blorong (The Tail of Nyai Blorong) is a remake of the 1930 whodunnit While the Patient Slept by the US crime novelist Mignon G. Eberhart (1899–1996), which is a murder mystery in true Agatha Christie fashion. This article shows how Suparto Brata did not simply reproduce Eberhart’s detective story in a postcolonial Indonesian setting but thoroughly and successfully reworked it until it hardly resembled its prototype anymore, turning a foreign example into a veritable modernist Javanese kind of Bildungsroman that mirrored 1960s Indonesian societal issues under the shadow of Sukarno’s nationalist policies and catastrophic economic conditions.
金钱、道德与现代性:20世纪60年代印尼对1930年美国悬疑小说的爪哇翻拍
苏帕托·布拉塔(Suparto Brata, 1932-2015)是现代爪哇文学中西方侦探小说模式的先驱。他的早期作品(1962年)是对1930年美国犯罪小说家米尼翁·g·埃伯哈特(1899-1996)的侦探小说《病人熟睡时》的翻拍,这是一部真正的阿加莎·克里斯蒂风格的谋杀悬疑小说。这篇文章展示了Suparto Brata如何不只是在印尼后殖民背景下简单地复制Eberhart的侦探故事,而是彻底而成功地对其进行了改造,直到它不再像它的原型,把一个外国的例子变成了一个真正的现代主义爪哇式的成长小说,反映了20世纪60年代印尼在苏加诺民族主义政策和灾难性经济状况的阴影下的社会问题。
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