{"product_id":"siti-surabaya-f-aziz-manna-9786237150206","title":"Siti Surabaya","description":"\u003cem\u003eSiti Surabaya\u003c\/em\u003e by F. Manna Aziz is the Surabaya poet's own amalgam of several of his earlier works in a single epic-length poem - \"à la Octavio Paz,\" as he has expressed it. While the title's protagonist is simply known as \"Siti,\" a common Arabic-derived female honorific, in the Javanese language this word also means \"earth, soil, and land,\" thus linking place and the people who stand upon it. Finally, \"siti\" can be understood as a homonym for \"city,\" hence Surabaya City, the fateful destination of destitute and \"thrown-way people\" (\u003cem\u003ekaum tundungan\u003c\/em\u003e).Aziz dedicates this resulting work as a historical mini-document about the victims of the man-made disaster that struck his own hometown of Sidoarjo in East Java with the 2006 \"mud volcano.\" The resulting displacement of the area's residents who had for generations worked this land and who now, having lost everything, became landless \u003cem\u003elumpen-proletariat \u003c\/em\u003ewho now migrated to nearby Surabaya to eke out a marginal existence. And even there they are ruthlessly exploited and forced out from one miserable place to another by relentless land development. F. Aziz Manna has called this work \"experimental.\" It is in fact a stunning multi-layered \u003cem\u003etour de force\u003c\/em\u003e of creativity to evoke in both realism and metaphor the devastation that modernity and greed wreak on the everyday, everywhere people of Indonesia.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e F. Aziz Manna,George A. Fowler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 623715020X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9786237150206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lontar Foundation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/11\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 116\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.28d","brand":"F. Aziz Manna","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48800806207743,"sku":"9786237150206","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/siti-surabaya-f-aziz-manna-9786237150206","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}