Question

In a novel from this country, Rengganis enters her classroom naked while shouting about being assaulted by a dog in the school toilet. In another novel from this country, the one-legged artist Jean Marais (“mah-RAY”) helps the protagonist avoid an obese hitman nicknamed Fatso. A magical realist novel from this country focusing on a prostitute who returns from the dead is titled Beauty is a Wound. A novel from this country about the native boy Minke’s love for the mixed-race concubine’s daughter Annelies was dictated by its author from prison. This modern-day country is the setting of This Earth of Mankind and a novel about the coffee trader Max Havelaar. For 10 points, what country is the birthplace of authors Eka Kurniawan and Pramoedya Ananta Toer (“pra-MOOD-yah ah-nahn-tah TOOR”), whose characters speak Dutch, Malay, and Javanese? ■END■ (10[3]0[1])

ANSWER: Indonesia [or Republic of Indonesia; or Republik Indonesia; prompt on Dutch East Indies]
<McGill B, World Literature>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Gregory StoneESF ACornell C13210
Chris ScheriRIT ABinghamton A13210
Giuseppe PiccirilliBinghamton ARIT A1320
Tom ScheriRIT BCornell D13210

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