Author: Siegel, James T.
Title: Fetish, Recognition, Revolution
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, (1997). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, x, 275 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: The Fetish of Appearance: The "I" of a Lingua Franca: Melayu as a Lingua Franca; "If I Were a Dutchman"; What Did Not Happen to Indonesians: The Lingua Franca Seen through Dutch; A Society of Appearances; Fetishizing Appearance, or Is "I" a Criminal?: The Njai & the White Father Seen by an Indo: G. Francis; Evading Fiction; The Ghost of the Lingua Franca; Appearances Again; The Camera & the Law; Recognition: Student Hidjau & the Feeling of Freedom; Scandal, Woman, Authors, & Sino- Malay Nationalism; Love Sick, or the Failures of the Fetish & of Translation; The Wish for Hierarchy; Revolution: Collaboration & Cautious Rebellion; Revolution; Epilogue: Pramoedya Ananta Toer's "Flunky + Maid" or Conservative Indonesian, Revolutionary Indonesian, & the Lack of Indonesian Literature.

Keywords: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Political Politics, Language Policy, Linguistics, Literature Literary, Anthropology, Sociology, Social Criticism