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Author Siegel, James T

Title Fetish, Recognition, Revolution / James T. Siegel
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (290 pages)
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The Fetish of Appearance -- Chapter One: The I of a Lingua Franca -- Melayu as a Lingua Franca -- If I Were a Dutchman -- Chapter Two: What Did Not Happen to Indonesians -- The Lingua Franca Seen through Dutch -- A Society of Appearances -- Chapter Three: Fetishizing Appearance, or Is ""I"" a Criminal? -- The Njai and the White Father Seen by an Indo: G. Francis -- Evading Fiction -- The Ghost of the Lingua Franca -- Appearances Again
The Camera and the Law -- 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 -- Recognition -- Photographs -- Chapter Seven: The Wish for Hierarchy -- Suspected -- Vengeance -- The Impulse toward Hierarchy -- Hierarchy, Vengeance, and Literature: The Crowd -- Part III: Revolution -- Chapter Eight: Collaboration and Cautious Rebellion -- Collaboration -- Suspicion Again -- Red Money, Cautious Rebellion
Chapter Nine: Revolution -- Without the Fetish of Modernity: ""Freedom or Death -- No Entry -- Epilogue: Pramoedya Ananta Toer's ""Flunky + Maid, ""or Conservative Indonesian, Revolutionary Indonesian, and the Lack of Indonesian Literature -- Notes
Summary 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 of the nineteenth century. At that time, the peoples of the Dutch East Indies began to translate literature from most places in the world. Siegel discovers in that moment a force within communication more important than the specific messages it conveyed. The subsequent containment of this linguistic force he calls the "fetish of modernity," which, like other fetishes, was thought to be able to compel events. Here, the event is the recognition of the bearer of the fetish as a person of the modern world. The taming of this force in Indonesian nationalism and the continuation of its wild form in the revolution are the major subjects of the book. Its material is literature from Indonesian and Dutch as well as first-person accounts of the revolution
Analysis Bintang Hindia
Book of Frauds
Chambert-Loir
Chinese
Christianity
Cinto
Dutchman
Groneman
Indonesian archipelago
Melayu language
Muhammad Bakir
Selompret Melayoe
Sitti Saniah
Student Hidjau
Tionghwa
achievement
admonitions
ambiguous
announcements
archipelago
berdandan
blackmailer
camat
characteristics
conservative
ektremists
gila hormat
imaginary
imaginative
incomprehensible
literature
mata doewitan
miscommunications
narcissism
nationalism
net moeder
njai
prijaji
rakyat
real mother
recognition
revolution
rudimentary literacy
satisfactorily
social revolution
sociological
sympathetic
teukeunong
transmission
tuan
vergctdering
vulnerability
weightlessness
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-275)
Notes Print version record
Subject Nationalism -- Indonesia -- History
Indonesian language -- History
Language and culture -- Indonesia
Literature and society -- Indonesia
Literature and revolutions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Indonesian language
Language and culture
Literature
Literature and revolutions
Literature and society
Nationalism
Politics and government
Social conditions
Soziolinguistik
Literatur
Nationalismus
Verstädterung
Multiculturele samenlevingen.
Culturele identiteit.
Maleis.
Nationalisme.
Revoluties.
Nationalism -- Indonesia -- History.
Indonesian language -- History.
Language and culture -- Indonesia.
Sociolinguistics -- Indonesia.
Literature and revolutions.
Nationalisme -- Indonésie -- Histoire.
Indonésien (langue) -- Histoire.
Langage et culture -- Indonésie.
Littérature et société -- Indonésie.
Littérature et révolution.
SUBJECT Indonesia -- Politics and government -- 1798-1942. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85065759
Indonesia -- Politics and government -- 1942-1949. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85065761
Indonesia -- Literatures -- History and criticism
Indonesia -- Social conditions
Subject Indonesia
Indonesien
Java
Indonesia -- Social conditions.
Indonesia -- Politics and government -- 1798-1942.
Indonesia -- Politics and government -- 1942-1949.
Indonesia -- Literatures -- History and criticism.
Indonésie -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1789-1942.
Indonésie -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1942-1949.
Indonésie -- Littératures -- Histoire et critique.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0691224005
9780691224008