Money, Morality, and Modernity: A Javanese Remake of a 1930 American Whodunnit in 1960s Indonesia

What is it about?

This article shows how the Javanese author Suparto Brata (1932-2015) reworked a 1930 American whodunnit until it hardly resembled its prototype anymore, turning a foreign example into a veritable Javanese narrative that mirrored 1960s Indonesian societal issues under the shadow of Sukarno's nationalist policies and catastrophic economic conditions.

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