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Realizing the Dream of R. A. Kartini
Joost J. Coté
其他書名
Her Sister's Letters from Colonial Java
出版
KITLV Press
, 2008
主題
History / Europe / General
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General
Social Science / Human Geography
Social Science / Regional Studies
ISBN
906718313X
9789067183130
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=GrUuAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Realizing the dream of R.A. Kartini: Her sisters' letters from colonial Java
presents a unique collection of documents reflecting the lives, attitudes, and politics of four Javanese women in the early twentieth century. Joost J. Coté translates the correspondence between Raden Ajeng Kartini, Indonesia's first feminist, and her sisters, revealing for the first time her sisters' contributions in defining and carrying out her ideals. With this collection, Coté aims to situate Kartini's sisters within the more famous Kartini narrative--and indirectly to situate Kartini herself within a broader narrative.
The letters reveal the emotional lives of these modern women and their concerns for the welfare of their husbands and the success of their children in rapidly changing times. While by no means radical nationalists, and not yet extending their horizons to the possibility of an Indonesian nation, these members of a new middle class nevertheless confidently express their belief in their own national identity.
Realizing the dream of R.A. Kartini
is essential reading for scholars of Indonesian history, providing documentary evidence of the culture of modern, urban Java in the late colonial era and an insight into the ferment of the Indonesian nationalist movement in which these women and their husbands played representative roles.