Author: DERMOUT, J.,
Title: In de Koffie. Oorspronkelijke Indische Roman. weede Goedkoope Uitgave [Second cheap publication, unchanged].
Description: Amersfoort, G.J. Slothouwer, [..], 1894. 2 vols. 8°. Recent private cloth. 179, 172pp. Translations of indonesian-malay words, phrases and expressions printed at tail-margins throughout. This seconde printing, NOT listed in holdings Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropoloogy, KITLV. Two volume late nineteenth century dutch language novelby an Insider, in which a picture is painted of daily life and troubles on a remote coffee-estate in a mountainous area of Java. The complexity of a small closed multi-recial society is described in rather detail, e.g.: wuropean management and employees tue utter lineliness and feelings of insecurity of europeans in a hot and mysterious tropical country with its overwheling vegetation, contacts with indonesian-dutch office staff, estate-coolies and chinese mandoors, etc. Rare. (copy in modern private cloth, library ticket at top of first page, volume I, library number in bold blue pencil on ti.-p. of volume II, Margins waterstained almost throughout, paper b rowning, NO signs of brittleness however).

Keywords: literature novel coffee estate java society racism indo coolies mandoor chinese dailylife experiences clomate colonialism indonesia southeastasia nineteenthcentury 19thc