Animism lingers in these selected Southeast Asian stories that center around “hantu,” the Malay word meaning “ghost” or “spirit.” Here are ten books in which ghosts manifest themselves in vampires, virtuous spirits, and more-all set in Southeast Asia and told by the prominent Southeast Asian writers of our time. So these ghost-story novels and collections from Southeast Asian writers feel familiar to me: they deal with the same restless spirits and the same sense of displacement. These ghost stories had to do with diaspora-characters, living or not living, wandering the earth and navigating the conflicts of displacement. My parents often loosely improvised “scary” stories about ancient ghosts from the Hebrew Bible and old Korean folktales, in which spirits manifested themselves in ways that weren’t always malicious or evil. These stories were often used to teach me lessons on how to behave and live however, instead of malevolent ghosts looking to terrorize people for their misdoings, I was more interested in ghosts who haunted people with the intention of connecting with them. Of the bedtime stories my parents told me, I took the most interest in the ones involving ghosts and spirits. Women carve a place for themselves in this world, finding ways to subvert norms or enacting brutalities on themselves and each other.Sign up for our newsletter to get submission announcements and stay on top of our best work. Epstein (Brow): Apple and Knife is acclaimed Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha’s first English publication.

In the globally connected and fast-developing Indonesia of Apple and Knife, taboos, inversions, sex and death all come together in a heady, intoxicating mix full of pointed critiques and bloody mutilations. Apple and Knife by Intan Paramaditha, translated by Stephen J. Solihin would give anything to make dangdut singer Salimah his wife - anything at all.

Jamal falls in love with the rich and powerful Bambang, but it is the era of the smiling general and, if he's not careful, he may find himself recruited to Bambang's brutal cause. Mara finds herself brainstorming an ad campaign for Free Maxi Pads, with a little help from the menstruation-eating hag of her childhood. Sometimes wacky and always engrossing, this is subversive feminist horror at its best, where men and women alike are arbiters of fear, and where revenge is sometimes sweetest when delivered from the grave.

These short fictions set in the Indonesian everyday-in corporate boardrooms, in shanty towns, on dangdut stages-reveal a soupy otherworld stewing just beneath the surface. Inspired by horror fiction, myths and fairy tales, Apple and Knife is an unsettling ride that swerves into the supernatural to explore the dangers and power of occupying a female body in today's world. Epstein Book Bib IDīook, Online - Google Books Apple and knife / Intan Paramaditha translated by Stephen J.

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