History and Writing in Indonesia

  • Nancy K. Florida
    Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future, History as Prophecy in Colonial Java. Duke University Press
  • Susan Rodgers
    Telling Lives, Telling History. Autobiography and Historical Imagination in Modern Indonesia. University of California Press
Reviewed by Tineke Hellwig
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This review “History and Writing in Indonesia” originally appeared in Canadian Literature 156 (Spring 1998): 127-128.

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