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Fetish, recognition, revolution / James T. Siegel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Siegel, James T., 1937-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nationalism--Indonesia--History.
- Nationalism.
- Literature and society.
- Language and culture.
- Politics and government.
- Indonesia.
- History.
- Indonesia--Politics and government--1789-1942.
- Indonesia--Politics and governmemt--1942-1949.
- Indonesia--Literatures--History and criticism.
- Indonesian language--History.
- Indonesian language.
- Indonesia--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Language and culture--Indonesia.
- Literature and society--Indonesia.
- Literature and revolutions.
- Genre:
- Literatures.
- Physical Description:
- x, 275 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1997.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Pt. I The Fetish of Appearance
- Ch. 1 The "I" of a Lingua Franca 13
- Ch. 2 What Did Not Happen to Indonesians 38
- Ch. 3 Fetishizing Appearance, or Is "I" a Criminal? 54
- Pt. II Recognition
- Ch. 4 Student Hidjau and The Feeling of Freedom 97
- Ch. 5 Scandal, Women, Authors, and Sino-Malay Nationalism 115
- Ch. 6 Love Sick, or the Failures of the Fetish and of Translation 134
- Ch. 7 The Wish for Hierarchy 161
- Pt. III Revolution
- Ch. 8 Collaboration and Cautious Rebellion 183
- Ch. 9 Revolution 208.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 069102653X
- 0691026521
- OCLC:
- 35183993
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