 | Born in Jakarta, Indonesia, Dewi Anggraeni is an Adjunct Research Associate of the School of Political and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Melbourne. She is the Australia correspondent for TEMPO news magazine, a regular contributor to The Jakarta Post, and an occasional contributor to various publications in Australia, including The Age, The Australian, The Australian Financial Review, Eureka Street, and The Canberra Times. Her fiction works have been published in Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, United States, and Hong Kong, in English and Indonesian languages. She has had seven books published in Australia by Indra Publishing, six of fiction: The Root of All Evil, Parallel Forces, Stories of Indian Pacific, Journeys through Shadows, Neighbourhood Tales, and Snake; one of non-fiction, Who did this to our Bali? and the eighth, also non-fiction, in Indonesia, Dreamseekers; Indonesian Women as Domestic Workers in Asia, jointly published by Equinox Publishing and International Labour Organisation, in 2006. |
Her short stories, essays and a poem have been published by the University of Queensland Press, Skoob Books (Britain), Allen and Unwin, Women’s Redress Press, Sybilla Press, Monash Asia Institute, Pandanus Books, Grafika Press (Indonesia) and Our Heritage Press (Indonesia).
In her non-fiction works, Dewi always tries to open up a wider perspective when viewing and covering an event, and in her fiction works, she follows her instincts, aided by the cultural experiences stored in her subconscious. In both genres, Dewi tends to cross cultural boundaries.
"I wanted to prise some of the issues I deemed important, out of the editing black hole and present them as the core contents of a book, because they were very significant not only for others to understand, but for the ethnic Chinese to understand what was happening to, and around, themselves." Dewi Anggraeni
"In telling the stories of these Chinese Indonesian women, Dewi shows us something of the variety of their experience. In so doing, she is deliberately seeking to break the negative stereotype of the ethnic Chinese and to allow us to see these individuals in the context of their Chinese ethnicity and in their full humanity. Hence the book’s title Breaking The Stereotype. Her focus on individual life stories can both illuminate and surprise." Charles A. Coppel
Dewi Anggraeni wrote this book because she saw that many things which did not fit the ethnic Chinese stereotype in Indonesia were rarely brought to the public’s attention, as they are not easily ‘slotted’ into the existing neat categories.
Published by Indra Publishing, and launched by Anita Barraud of ABC Radio National, join us for an insight into Dewi's ninth book, Breaking the Stereotype.
| TIME: | 6.00pm for 6.30pm to 8.00pm | |
| VENUE: | Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room | |
| Level 1, Sidney Myer Asia Centre | ||
| The University of Melbourne | ||
| Corner of Swanston Street & Monash Road (Gate 4) | ||
| RSVP by: | Wednesday 3rd November | |
| ENQUIRIES: | Adam Hills | |
| a.hills@asialink.unimelb.edu.au |
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