Nusantara Myths in Malam Seribu Jahanam

Singapore Writers Festival 2023

Lecture  |  SEA Focus  |  Fiction  |  English  |  1 hr

19 Nov, Sun, 2.00pm to 3.00pm

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Asian Civilisation Museum

Program description

In this lecture, Intan Paramaditha shares how she works with legends, myths, folk lores and the popular culture from Indonesia to discuss contemporary concerns about family, religion and social classes.

This programme is in English and is supported by the Asia Creative Writing Programme, a joint initiative of the National Arts Council and the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University.

Speaker

Intan Paramaditha is the author of The Wandering, a novel on the politics of travel in a choose-your-own adventure format, and a feminist horror story collection Apple and Knife. Both were translated from the Indonesian to English by Stephen J. Epstein and published by Harvill Secker, Penguin Random House UK. Her new novel, Malam Seribu Jahanam (2023), weaves gothic elements, Islamic stories, and nusantara folktales. She is a Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney.

Moderator

Annaliza Bakri holds a Master of Arts from the Department of Malay Studies at the National University of Singapore. Her research interests include the interplay of ideology and ethnicity in shaping the dominant narratives in literature, language education and the intersection between translation, history and humanity. She edited and translated a poetry anthology featuring places in Singapore and her surrounding islands titled Sikit-Sikit Lama-lama Jadi Bukit (2017).