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.
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