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Articles by Benedict Anderson
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The Unrewarded
in NLR 80, March-April 2013, pp. 99-108
Subjects: Literature , Southeast Asia
Capricious patterns of distribution for the Nobel prize in literature as a reflection of changing geo-political currents, from belle époque to Cold War to globalized present.
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Exit Suharto
in NLR 50, March-April 2008, pp. 27-59
Subjects: Indonesia
What explains the extraordinary longevity of Indonesia’s ‘New Order’, and what are the legacies of three decades of dictatorship? Benedict Anderson details Suharto’s career, from colonial army to crony capitalism, and explores the consequences of his rule—political, social, cultural—for a disorientated, amnesiac present.
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Jupiter Hill
in NLR 29, September-October 2004, pp. 91-120
Subjects: Biography and Intellectual History , Literature , Philippines
Political education in the dungeons of Barcelona, and the converging tracks of Filipino and Cuban revolutionaries as the 400-year-old Spanish empire enters its final throes. Benedict Anderson concludes his exploration of the late 19th-century world setting of José Rizal’s explosive anti-colonial novels.
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In the World-Shadow of Bismarck and Nobel
in NLR 28, July-August 2004, pp. 85-129
Subjects: Biography and Intellectual History , Literature , Philippines
After the literary revelations of ‘Nitroglycerine in the Pomegranate’ (NLR 27), a new political reading of José Rizal’s astonishing last novel. Imperial power, anarchist bombings and anti-colonial insurrection in the gifted young Filipino’s vision of a 19th-century global landscape.
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Nitroglycerine in the Pomegranate
in NLR 27, May-June 2004, pp. 99-118
Subjects: Biography and Intellectual History , Literature , Philippines
Literary interactions between world capital and colonial periphery in the late nineteenth century—how rebel Filipino novelist José Rizal transformed elements of decadent aestheticism in Huysmans’s À Rebours, to explosive political effect.
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Western Nationalism and Eastern Nationalism
in NLR 9, May-June 2001, pp. 31-42
Subjects: Nationalism
Reflections from Taiwan on the history of creole and official, linguistic and long-distance nationalisms in Asia and Europe, and their implications for China. Is there any significant difference here between East and West?
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Petrus Dadi Ratu
in NLR 3, May-June 2000, pp. 7-15
Subjects: History and Historiography , Indonesia
What lay behind the greatest counter-revolutionary massacre of the 20th century, the extermination of the Indonesian Left in 1965? How did the Suharto dictatorship come to power? The extraordinary testimony of a survivor on the bloody mystery at the source of its tyranny.
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The Rooster's Egg
in NLR 2, March-April 2000, pp. 47-62
Subjects: History and Historiography , Philippines
The astonishing feat of a 23-year-old Filipino folklorist who took the newly invented discipline by storm under Spanish rule. What did patriotism mean for an Ilocano before modern nationalism; how many discrepant voices could an overseas enlightenment release?
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Indonesian Nationalism Today and in the Future
in NLR I/235, May-June 1999, pp. 3-17
Subjects: Nationalism , Political Theory and Strategy , Indonesia
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Ice Empire and Ice Hockey: Two Fin de Siecle Dreams
in NLR I/214, November-December 1995, pp. 146-150
Subjects: Biography and Intellectual History , Nationalism , Soviet Union and Russia , Poland
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Radicalism after Communism in Thailand and Indonesia
in NLR I/202, November-December 1993, pp. 3-14
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , Indonesia , Thailand
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The New World Disorder
in NLR I/193, May-June 1992, pp. 3-13
Subjects: Nationalism
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- Murder and Progress in Modern Siam
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Cacique Democracy and the Philippines: Origins and Dreams
in NLR I/169, May-June 1988, pp. 3-31
Subjects: Philippines
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James Fenton's Slideshow
in NLR I/158, July-August 1986, pp. 81-90
Subjects: Philippines
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