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PublisherOhio University Press

ISBN-100896802531

ISBN-139780896802537

eBay Product ID (ePID)57205572

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Number of Pages412 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameRealizing the Dream of R. A. Kartini : Her Sisters' Letters from Colonial Java

Publication Year2008

SubjectAsia / Southeast Asia, Women's Studies, Modern / 19th Century

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaSocial Science, History

AuthorJoost J. Coté

SeriesOhio Ris Southeast Asia Ser.

FormatPerfect

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight17.1 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2007-045856

Reviews"Joost Cot presents what is probably the last of the Kartini-related letters extant . . . a precious and unique resource. The translations are first-class, and the person who probably knows more about Kartini and her family than anyone else in the world has edited them." --William H. Frederick, author of Visions and Heat: The Making of the Indonesian Revolution, "Joost Coteacute; presents what is probably the last of the Kartini-related letters extant . . . a precious and unique resource. The translations are first-class, and the person who probably knows more about Kartini and her family than anyone else in the world has edited them." -William H. Frederick, author ofVisions and Heat: The Making of the Indonesian Revolution, "Joost Coté presents what is probably the last of the Kartini-related letters extant . . . a precious and unique resource. The translations are first-class, and the person who probably knows more about Kartini and her family than anyone else in the world has edited them." --William H. Frederick, author of Visions and Heat: The Making of the Indonesian Revolution, "Joost Coté presents what is probably the last of the Kartini-related letters extant . . . a precious and unique resource. The translations are first-class, and the person who probably knows more about Kartini and her family than anyone else in the world has edited them." -William H. Frederick, author of Visions and Heat: The Making of the Indonesian Revolution, "Joost Cote presents what is probably the last of the Kartini-related letters extant . . . a precious and unique resource. The translations are first-class, and the person who probably knows more about Kartini and her family than anyone else in the world has edited them." -William H. Frederick, author of "Visions and Heat: The Making of the Indonesian Revolution", " Realizing the Dream of R. A. Kartini explains in a gentle way why it is that postcolonial Indonesia has excised the Dutch from its memory. One by one, the sisters stop writing to their Dutch friends; it is a 'symbolic disengagement from the colonial connection,' as well as a 'closing of the account.'"-- Asian Ethnology, "Joost Coté presents what is probably the last of the Kartini-related letters extant ... a precious and unique resource. The translations are first-class, and the person who probably knows more about Kartini and her family than anyone else in the world has edited them."--William H. Frederick, author of Visions and Heat: The Making of the Indonesian Revolution

Series Volume Number114

IllustratedYes

SynopsisRealizing 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., 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., "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. Cote 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, Cote 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., "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. Cote 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, Cote aims to situate Kartini's sisters within the more famous Kartini narrative-and indirectly to situate Kartini herself within a broader narrative. "Realizing the Dream of R. A. Kartini "is essential reading for scholars of Indonesian history., 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. Cote 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, Cote 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.

LC Classification NumberDS643.R38 2008