Author: KIJDSMEIR JR., CAESAR [=A. ZIMMERMAN],
Title: Goena-Goena. [Eerste, enige, druk; First edition].
Description: [Batavia], D'Oriënt, [circa], 1930. Large 8°., original clothbacked boards, with covertitle in large bold type. 166pp. BUUR, PD, 1112. Dutch language novel in which a picture is painted of male white europeans discussing/consideringage, exchanging private experiences or from hear-say sources; it includes opinions about life in an oppressive climate, contacts with the indigenous population of the Dutch East Indies, overwhelming moral impact of a tropical society, feelings of utter loneliness, rumours about Goena-goena or black magic and other factors within a mixed marriage, leading to development of tropic neurosis or Tropenkolder. Author was chief-editor of the weekly d'Oriënt. Good to very good copy. Rare.

Keywords: novel literature batavia java marriage intercultural mixed neurosis witchcraft blackmagic tropenkolder society relations heritage colonialism indonesia southeastasia buur