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Of self and nation : autobiography and the representation of modern Indonesia

Title
Of self and nation : autobiography and the representation of modern Indonesia / C.W. Watson.
Author
Watson, C. W.
Publication
Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2000], ©2000.

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Description
xi, 257 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Nationalism > Indonesia
  • Ethnicity > Indonesia
  • National characteristics, Indonesian
  • Autobiography
  • Indonesia > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-252) and index.
Contents
Ch. 1. The Construction of an Autobiographical Self in the Letters of Kartini -- Ch. 2. The Metamorphosis of a Javanese Aristocrat: The Memoirs of Pangeran Achmad Djajadiningrat -- Ch. 3. The Representation of History and the Presentation of Self: Tan Malaka's Dari Pendjara ke Pendjara -- Ch. 4. Religion, Nationalism, and the Individual in Modern Indonesian Autobiography: Hamka's Kenang-Kenangan Hidup -- Ch. 5. Islam in Java - Refractions through an Autobiographical Prism: Saifuddin Zuhri's Guruku Orang-Orang dari Pesantren -- Ch. 6. "A World Full of Ambivalence": Sitor Situmorang's Autobiographical Reflections on Postcolonial Indonesia -- Ch. 7. Revealing and Resisting the Construction of Gender: Nh Dini's Autobiography of a Javanese Childhood -- Ch. 8. Reconversion Narratives among Islamic Youth in Indonesia.
ISBN
  • 0824820959 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0824822811 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
99041857
OCLC
ocm41981984
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries