%0 Journal Article
%T Sutan Pangurabaan rewrites Sumatran language landscapes: The political possibilities of commercial print in the late colonial Indies
%A Susan Rodgers
%J Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
%D 2012
%I Brill
%X An exploration of the exuberant publishing activities and circa 1930s texts by a largely unknown Sumatran vernacular writer, Sutan Pangurabaan Pane, father of the better-known authors Armijn and Sanusi Pane. Sutan P¡¯s schoolbooks, how-to guides, and antiquarian volumes used Angkola Batak and Indonesian to promote a robust vision of Batak linguistic and cultural excellence. Flying under the radar of Dutch governmental censorship, Sutan P¡¯s many works both mimicked and interrogated European textual forms, in sometimes anxious, ambiguous ways.
%K Batak literatures
%K arts of resistance
%K colonial Sumatra
%U http://www.kitlv-journals.nl/index.php/btlv/article/view/8511