Fetish, Recognition, Revolution / / James T. Siegel.

This book concerns the role of language in the Indonesian revolution. James Siegel, an anthropologist with long experience in various parts of that country, traces the beginnings of the Indonesian revolution, which occurred from 1945 through 1949 and which ended Dutch colonial rule, to the last part...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
©1997
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (287 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The Fetish of Appearance
  • Chapter One. The "I" of a Lingua Franca
  • Chapter Two. What Did Not Happen to Indonesians
  • Chapter Three. Fetishizing Appearance, or Is "I" a Criminal?
  • Part II. Recognition
  • Chapter Four. Student Hidjau and The Feeling of Freedom
  • Chapter Five. Scandal, Women, Authors, and Sino-Malay Nationalism
  • Chapter Six. Love Sick, or the Failures of the Fetish and of Translation
  • Chapter Seven. The Wish for Hierarchy
  • Part III. Revolution
  • Chapter Eight. Collaboration and Cautious Rebellion
  • Chapter Nine. Revolution
  • Epilogue. Pramoedya Ananta Toer's "Flunky + Maid," or Conservative Indonesian, Revolutionary Indonesian, and the Lack of Indonesian Literature
  • Notes
  • About the Author