{"product_id":"avianti-armand-women-whose-names-were-erased","title":"Avianti Armand, Women Whose Names Were Erased","description":"\u003cp\u003eTranslated by Eliza Vitri Handayani.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReading Holy Books is like entering a labyrinth. In that labyrinth fact and fiction are tangled. Worlds intertwined with words. And those words present a chunk of a universe, which is incomplete and not entirely truthful, it hides some things that we do not yet know. The poems in this book are lifted off the Holy Books, The Old Testament.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is rendered with women who are present, alive, and weaving history along with the men, but in all those stories the women remain behind veils. Avianti Armand chose to rewrite the stories of 5 most intriguing, ambiguous, and treacherous women from it. This collection of poems is not an attempt to bring the women out of the labyrinth, but an invitation for us to meet them through other winding, twisted, and unpredictable paths.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Fables taken from the ribs of archetypes, retold lusciously and reshaped with a necessary defiance, this book is an un-erasure, a journey of whimsy with a knife at your throat.’ Khairani Barokka\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Armand's poetry has always been rendered by a double character: aesthetical as well as political, narrative as well as lyrical, doubting and then fulfilling.’  Zen Hae\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Avianti Armand’s poems invite us to enter the beauty of the mysterious orifice  in the Book of Silence. With a perspective and ambiguity that disturbs reasons and imaginations, Avianti Armand has reconstructed and revived the historical women’s movements hidden behind biblical narratives.’ Joko Pinurbo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Avianti Armand’s feminist restagings of Old Testament scenarios are both vital and hypnotic. This is a powerful book that taps into something essential about women’s experience.’ Emily Stewart\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAvianti Armand\u003c\/b\u003e works as an architect since 1992. Her design, Rumah Kampung, won an award from the Indonesian Association of Architects in 2008. Her short story collection, \u003ci\u003eNegeri Para Peri\u003c\/i\u003e, came out in 2009, and one story, “Pada Suatu Hari Ada Ibu dan Radian”, was selected as Kompas Best Short Story. Her collection of poems \u003ci\u003ePerempuan Yang Dihapus Namanya\u003c\/i\u003e came out in 2010 and went on to win the Khatulistiwa Literary Award 2011. She is also the curator for Indonesia Pavilion in Venice Architecture Biennale 2014, and continues to do her curatorial works for architecture exhibitions until now. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eEliza Vitri Handayani\u003c\/b\u003e’s first novel in English,\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/prose\/products\/eliza-vitri-handayani-from-now-on-everything-will-be-different\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e From Now On Everything Will Be Different\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, was published by Vagabond last year. She has published short pieces in leading Indonesian literary outlets as well as in the \u003ci\u003eAsia Literary Review, Griffith Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWords without Borders, Exchanges Journal, Inside Indonesia. \u003c\/i\u003eShe is the founder and manager of InterSastra, an Indonesian literary translation project.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAvianti Armand, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWomen Whose Names Were Erased \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTranslated by Eliza Vitri Handayani\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 2018. 148mm x 210mm. 52pp. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN 978-1-925735-05-5\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRelease date: September 1, 2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"width:550px;height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/swnv\/index.html\" seamless=\"seamless\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":14400611908,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/ARMAND_9781925735055-Perfect.jpg?v=1599978814","url":"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/de\/products\/avianti-armand-women-whose-names-were-erased","provider":"Vagabond Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}