TY  - JOUR
A1  - Nieß, Joachim
T1  - Telling and selling literary fiction in early Malay language newspapers in colonial Indonesia
T2  - Wacana
N2  - When newspapers in the colloquial Malay language appeared in the Dutch East Indies in the middle of the nineteenth century, they did more than just publish news reports and advertisements. They also created a new platform for the telling and distribution of literary fiction. In effect, literary texts soon played an important role in the vernacular print media. The first part of this article analyses the attraction of newspaper literature from the perspective of both the reader and the editor in general and gives a survey of the various forms of literary genres which can be found in newspapers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In the second part, one particular serialized novel will be discussed in detail to demonstrate how the mode of publication also influenced the way stories were told.
KW  - Indonesia
KW  - literary fiction
KW  - media
KW  - newspapers
KW  - Surabaya
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/44243
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-442433
SN  - 2407-6899
SN  - 1411-2272
N1  - This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
VL  - 17
IS  - 3
SP  - 377
EP  - 403
PB  - University of Indonesia
CY  - Depok
ER  -