Realizing the Dream of R. A. Kartini - Her Sisters' Letters from Colonial Java (Paperback, Trade Pbk)

"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.

General

Imprint:	Ohio University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Research in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series
Release date:	February 2008
First published:	February 2008
Editors:	Joost J. Cote
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	412
Edition:	Trade Pbk
ISBN-13:	978-0-89680-253-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	0-89680-253-1
Barcode:	9780896802537

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