Author: DOUWES DEKKER, E.F.E.,
Title: Het boek van Siman den Javaan. Een roman van Rijst, Dividend en Menschelijkheid. [Eerste druk/first edn.].
Description: Amersfoort, F.M. Wink, 1908. Original publ. cloth, title printed in bold black type on front boards, within a rechly broad decorative black border, author's name in black type with small illustrations at sides, all printed in relief and initialled TkB, title in black type on spine. Hftitle (verso with printer's imprint), 380pp. publ. advertism. on 2 unnumbered lvs. at very end, nicely decorated thin paper endpapers. BUUR, PD., 692. Novel set on Java with as main character a javanese rice-growing Tani (farmer), illustrating the social deprivation and extortion of common javanese labourers and farmers in particular, by european, e.g. dutch, business men and investors. Author worked for an extended time as an editor of the Bataviaasch Nieuwsblad. Good copy in original publisher's cloth. (front inner hinger somewhat weakening but reinforced by a matching paper strip, some tiny spots on verso of hftitle and ti.-p.).

Keywords: novel sociology society indegenous java literature history deprivation tani java javanese farming rice social position extortion labour colonialism indonesia southeast asia buur