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  • 4 - “Ceyloned”: The View from the Other Shore

  • Ronit Ricci, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Book:
    Banishment and Belonging
    Published online:
    11 November 2019
    Print publication:
    21 November 2019, pp 76-96

  • Summary

    Beginning with the Javanese verb diselongaké - to be “ceyloned,” i.e. exiled - this chapter investigates a set of questions related to Javanese documentation and memorialization of exile to Ceylon. As a start, it asks whether Javanese authors indeed wrote about exile to Ceylon, a question that has to date not been pursued despite the large number of exiles from Java, and even more so their social and political prominence. Drawing on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Javanese manuscripts of the historical babad genre, the chapter argues that, although depictions of exile to Ceylon are relatively few and far between, mining local chronicles for references yields a body of insights on how life in exile was imagined and understood in Java, how exile affected those left behind as well as those returning home from Ceylon, and what meanings, tensions and creative possibilities infused narratives of exile.