C W Watson. Of Self and Nation: Aut...

C W Watson. Of Self and Nation: Autobiography and the Representation of fresh Indonesia. Honolulu: U of Hawai'i P 2000 257 PP ISBN 0-8248-2281-1 $2495

This valuable locate of eight essays on twentieth hundred years Indonesian literature and social imagination has a precise aim: to chart not at home the cultural space where the autobiographical self and the Indonesian nationalist imagination have intersected and mutually shaped each other, rhetorically and politically, above the period framed by the publication of Raden Ajeng Kartini's colonial-era, Dutch language epistolary memoir From