Within the friction between personal memory and public history, Malna tracks the shifting terrain of Jakarta’s socio-cultural environment through the years of General Suharto’s dictatorship, seeking out the collisions between identity, history, and urban life that compose his biography. Orienting the book’s inquiries are the challenges of living within the ever-shifting ground of a modernizing city. Published in 2020 by the Indonesian/Australian publisher Reading Sideways Press, the book is a document of Malna’s Jakarta that combines autobiographical narrative with material pulled from the internet to excavate, renew, revise, and reconfigure biography into a poetic form. “Third-Person DNA” and “Incident Before Monday” appear in the first chapter of Prometheus Pinball, a verse memoir of Jakarta by the poet and playwright Afrizal Malna.
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