Dairi Stories and Pakpak Storytelling

A Storytelling Tradition from the North Sumatran Rainforest
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-6718-387-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 364 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 703 g

This study of traditional literature in Pakpak-Dairi, an endangered North Sumatran language, is based on written and oral versions of stories. Discussing the views of well-known scholars of Sumatran languages, the book includes the texts of seven stories which were collected in North Sumatra by the well-known linguist Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk (1824-1894) and are kept in Leiden University Library.
The book also contains a story performed in the village of Sukarame by Sonang Sitakar, who may well have been one of the last Pakpak-Dairi storytellers. Presenting unique information on an endangered literary genre from North Sumatra.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in Southeast Asian culture and oral traditions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brakel-Papenhuijzen, Clara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Brakel-Papenhuijzen, Clara
Clara Brakel-Papenhuyzen, (1942) studied the languages and Cultures of South and Southeast Asia, Anthropology and Linguistics at Leiden University (PhD 1988). She is a performer and researcher of Asian dance, theatre and music, educated at Art Academies in India and Indonesia. A widely published scholar of Asian Performing Arts, Dr. Brakel-Papenhuyzen is the author of The bedhaya court dances of Central Java (1992) and edited The Performer as (inter)cultural Transmitter (1996).