Teknologi, Modernitas, Dan Zaman 'Pantjaroba': Representasi Radio Dalam Dua Roman Indonesia Di Akhir Zaman Kolonial

• Main Author: Perpustakaan UGM, i-lib
• Format: Article NonPeerReviewed
• Published: [Yogyakarta] : Universitas Gadjah Mada 2009
• Subjects: Jurnal i-lib UGM
• Online Access: https://repository.ugm.ac.id/27630/; http://i-lib.ugm.ac.id/jurnal/download.php?dataId=10691
• Institution: Universitas Gadjah Mada

The reception and perception of the Indonesian society on radio technology in the early period of the appearance of this technology in the former Netherlands East Indies can of course be traced in its diverse culture texts, including the literary texts. Even though such technological invention as radio is an element that is quite apparent and give colour in many modern Indonesian literary texts, this element has not seemed to attract the attention of scholars of Indonesian literary studies. This paper looks at the images of radio technology in modern Indonesian literary texts by examining how this technology is represented as a matter of course in early modern Indonesian literary works. Two works which will be investigated in this article are Muhammad Dimyati's Dibalik Tabir Gelombang Radio (1940) and A. Damhoeri's Zender Nirom (1940). In this paper