Abstract

»This talk will briefly explore women, their writings and the images of woman in Indonesian literature. As a brief overview, it is not intended as a detailed historiography of the works of all women writers, as selection and preference are necessary in order to limit the discussion to within reasonable bounds. Rather, the emphasis is on the general ways that women?s writing was, and is, perceived by ist Indonesian audience. As part of the complex discourse, women in Indonesian literature are inseparable from the narratives they have created: narratives that focus on female characters and their responses to their surrounding adversities.«

Eintritt: frei

Ort: Asien-Afrika-Institut der Universität Hamburg, Raum 120, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 (Ost), 20146 Hamburg

Diah Ariani Arimbi | teaches literature and cultural studies at Universitas Airlangga in Surabaya, Indonesia. She received her Ph.D degree in women’s and gender studies from The University of New South Wales, Australia, master degree in English literature from The University of Northern Iowa, USA, and bachelor degree in English from Universitas Airlangga.

Her main research is about the representations of Muslim women and their identities in narratives by contemporary Muslim women writers in Indonesia. Her interests include cultural studies in Indonesia, Indonesian and English literature, feminisms, Indonesian women in post-colonial Indonesia, while her current researches cover images of women and the conception of beauty in women’s magazines, the ways women are portrayed in popular culture and women in the Tarbiyah Movement.

She has published several articles in journals such as Atavisme, Masyarakat Kebudayaan dan Politik, English Language Teaching. Her publications include Reading Contemporary Indonesian Muslim Women Writers: Representation, Identity and Religion of Muslim Women in Indonesian Fiction (Amsterdam University Press - ICAS Publications) in 2009.