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"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.
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