LETTERS OF A JAVANESE PRINCESS BY RADEN ADJENG KARTINI by Hildred Geertz ( 9780819147585 )

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LETTERS OF A JAVANESE PRINCESS BY RADEN ADJENG KARTINI

By:

Hildred Geertz

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Paperback

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0819147583

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9780819147585

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UNIVERSITY PRESS OF AMERICA

Pub. date:

28 September, 1985

Pages:

246

Translated from:

Dutch; Flemish

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Translated from the original Dutch by Agnes Louise Symmers and originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, this collection of letters was written by the daughter of a Javanese civil servant in the Dutch colonial government. She had been permitted the unusual privilege of attending a Dutch elementary school, but then returned home to seclusion during her adolescence, as was the Indonesian custom for women. The letters provide a fascinating picture of the life and spirit of the time during the period when Java was undergoing intimate contact with Western civilization. Through her writings she became a spokesman for the liberation and education of women, as well as an advocate for Indonesian nationalist aspirations. Co-published with the Asia Society.

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