Mundi Rahayu

SUBALTERN VOICES AND COLONIAL DESIRE: RECLAIMING THE NYAI’S AGENCY IN INDONESIAN COLONIAL LITERATURE

This study examines the Nyai—a concubine figure situated at the intersection of colonial power, patriarchy, and racial hybridity—in Indonesian colonial literature. It offers a paired reading of Nyai Ontosoroh in Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s Bumi Manusia and Nyi Sadikem in Artie Ahmad’s recent novel Nyi Sadikem (Marjin Kiri)...