Sebagai bagian dari penghadiran sosok Ratna sekaligus intervensi feminis atas kajian sejarah film Indonesia, Kelas Liarsip menuliskan proses kerja dari perspektif masing-masing pelaku dalam bunga rampai Ratna Asmara: Perempuan di Dua Sisi Kamera. Buku ini tidak hanya memuat aspek biografis dan filmografi Ratna, tetapi juga langkah-langkah pemulihan karyanya. Pengalaman kami berkenalan dan menel…
Emperor Haile Selassie was an iconic figure of the twentieth century, a progressive monarch who ruled Ethiopia from 1916 to 1974. This book, written by a former state official who served in a number of important positions in Selassie’s government, tells both the story of the emperor’s life and the story of modern Ethiopia. After a struggle for the throne in 1916, the young Selassie emerged …
Thomas Sankara, often called the African Che Guevara, was president of Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries in Africa, until his assassination during the military coup that brought down his government. Although his tenure in office was relatively short, Sankara left an indelible mark on his country’s history and development. An avowed Marxist, he outspokenly asserted his country’s ind…
Patrice Lumumba was a leader of the independence struggle in what is today the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as the country’s first democratically elected prime minister. After a meteoric rise in the colonial civil service and the African political elite, he became a major figure in the decolonisation movement of the 1950s. Lumumba’s short tenure as prime minister (1960-1) was m…
The artist formerly (and usually) known as Caravaggio has been a perennial and fascinating enigma for centuries. Born Michelangelo Merisi in 1571, he took the name Caravaggio from the small town outside Milan in which he lived before moving to Rome in 1592, where he rapidly established himself as one of the most acclaimed but also controversial painters of his time. In Peter Robb's groundbreaki…
Sitor Situmorang (1924 – 2014) adalah tokoh yang kompleks. Ia adalah penyair Indonesia terkuat, penulis cerita pendek yang karyanya harus diperhitungan bagi siapa saja yang hendak membuat kumpulan cerita pendek terbaik dunia, tokoh film karena dari tangannya lahir cerita film Darah dan Doa (1950) yang dianggap sebagai tonggak pertama film Indonesia, dan eseis kebudayaan yang buah pikirannya m…
Inilah biografi tokoh militer dan intelijen legendaris Indonesia yang sangat disegani tidak hanya di Indonesia, tetapi juga oleh negara-negara lain, terutama di kawasan Asean. Buku ini harus dimiliki oleh anda yang menggemari buku sejarah, biografi tokoh militer, terutama sejarah RPKAD (KOPASSUS TNI-AD).
“Utterly brilliant” – Steve Bell, Guardian A graphic novel of the dramatic life and death of German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg. A giant of the political left, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the foremost minds in the canon of revolutionary socialist thought. But she was much more than just a thinker. She made herself heard in a world inimical to the voices of strong-willed women. She ove…
Pramoedya Ananta Toer adalah buku. Buku yang seutuh-utuhnya buku. Karena ia buku yang besar, meluas, dan berwibawa, maka ia abadi: Scripta manent verba volant (tulisan itu abadi, sementara lisan cepat berlalu bersama derai angin). Dan ia yakin akan abadi (W. 30 April 2006). Dan keyakinan itu sudah ia tuliskan dalam sebuah artefak utuh tanpa ragu di halaman 356 kuartet keempat Buru, Rumah Kaca:…
This is the first collection to be inspired and informed by the new films and archival material that glasnost and perestroika have revealed, and the new methodological approaches that are developing in tandem.
The collection brings together cinema historians and film critics from Britain, France, the USA and Russia to re-examine Soviet film and reassess Cold War historiogra…
Mexico's leading poet, essayist, and cultural critic writes of a Mexican poet of another time and another world, the world of seventeenth-century New Spain. His subject is Sor Juana In�s de la Cruz, the most striking figure in all of Spanish-American colonial literature and one of the great poets of her age.
Her life reads like a novel. A spirited and precocious girl, one of six ille…
Biography of Raden Tjetje Somantri, 1892-1963, an Indonesian choreographer of Sundanese dances from West Java.
Author's account on his life as a homosexual and the future of gays in Indonesia.
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'Suppose,' Clifford Geertz suggests, 'having entangled yourself every now and again over four decades or so in the goings-on in two provincial towns, one a Southeast Asian bend in the road, one a North African outpost and passage point, you wished to say something about how those goings-on had changed.' A narrative presents itself, a tour of indices and trends, perhaps a memoir? None, however, …
Biography of Raden Tjetje Somantri, 1892-1963, an Indonesian choreographer of Sundanese dances from West Java.
Ketika buku memoir Bung Hatta diterbitkan pada tahun 1979, banyak orang menyayangkan bahwa buku itu kurang mengemukakan kehidupan pribadi Bung Hatta. Bagaimanakah Bung Hatta berpesan sebagai kepala keluarga? Banyakkah pengaruh keluarga beliau terhadap pembentukan kepribadian Bung Hatta? Bagaimanakah pergaulan pribadi Bung Hatta dengan kawan-kawannya? Orang lebih menyayangkan lagi bahwa samapi B…
Autobiography of a Dutch woman who grew up in Indonesia during colonial time, experienced the Japanese occupation.
Home to Catalonia is both Orwell's memoir of his experience at the front and his tribute to those who died in what he called a fight for common decency
As recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, president of the African National Congress, and head of the antiapartheid movement, Nelson Mandela has been one of the world's great moral and political leaders
Dalam kumpulan cerita pendek kocak muram ini, Sherman Alexie, seorang Indian Spokane/Coeur d'Alene, dengan cemerlang menjalin memori, fantasi, dan realisme lugas untuk melukiskan sepotong potret ruwet, suram, dan ironis kehidupan di Reservasi Indian Spokane dan sekitarnya.
Perkenalan Orlean dengan Laroche membawanya ke dunia penggila anggrek di Florida. Tak perlu waktu lama bagi Orlean untuk menyadari bahwa Laroche ternyata hanyalah satu dari sekian kegilaan dunia anggrek. Cerita di balik keindahan anggrek ternyata begitu rumit. Ada darah, kerakusan, kecemburuan, dan sekian kisah gelap lainnya. Penyelundupan dan pencurian anggrek senilai ratusan ribu dolar tergol…
Blending the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history, Wild Swans has become a bestselling classic in thirty languages, with more than ten million copies sold. The story of three generations in twentieth-century China, it is an engrossing record of Mao's impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and …
Henry David Thoreau's masterwork, Walden, is a collection of his reflections on life and society. His simple but profound musings�as well as Civil Disobedience, his protest against the government's interference with civil liberty�have inspired many to embrace his philosophy of individualism and love of nature.
'Arranged in alphabetical order by photographer, The Photography Book brings together 500 inspiring, moving and beautiful images of famous events and people, sensational landscapes, historic moments, sport, wildlife and fashion. Each photograph is discussed in detail, bringing it to life and giving us an understanding of this art form which is so influential in our everyday lives. A simple syst…
Arthur Rimbaud was a extraordinary figure, a man who in his teenage year s wrote poetry that is arguably amongst the greatest in French Literature, but who gave it all up by his early 20s and went to Africa to run guns. It's hard to think of a more fascinating figure from the 19th century, or one more relevant to the youth-icon-fixated present. Robb's biography inhabits the superlative mode: Ri…
The art of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain was all about his private life, but written in a code as obscure as TS Eliot's. In Heavier than Heaven Charles Cross has cracked the code, and this definitive biography is an all-access pass to Cobain's heart and mind. It reveals many secrets, thanks to 400-plus interviews, and even quotes Cobain's diaries and suicide notes revealing an unreleased Nirvana…