Table of Contents

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction3Pt. IThe Fetish of AppearanceCh. 1The "I" of a Lingua Franca13Ch. 2What Did Not Happen to Indonesians38Ch. 3Fetishizing Appearance, or Is "I" a Criminal?54Pt. IIRecognitionCh. 4Student Hidjau and The Feeling of Freedom97Ch. 5Scandal, Women, Authors, and Sino-Malay Nationalism115Ch. 6Love Sick, or the Failures of the Fetish and of Translation134Ch. 7The Wish for Hierarchy161Pt. IIIRevolutionCh. 8Collaboration and Cautious Rebellion183Ch. 9Revolution208Epilogue231Notes255

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Not since Kahin's and Anderson's classics, which were published decades ago, have I seen such a powerful explanation of the Indonesian revolution. Historians, anthropologists, and political scientists in the field of Indonesian, Southeast Asian, colonial and post-colonial studies, as well as scholars of literature, nationalism, and identity, will use this book with profit. A 'Siegel School' of Indonesian Studies will be established by this book. -- Rudolf Mrazek, University of Michigan This is an extraordinary book. The virtuosity of the analyses is truly remarkable. Siegel's writing is oftentimes brilliant, and sometimes stunningly powerful. -- Michael E. Meeker, University of California, San Diego

About the Author

James T. Siegel is Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of The Rope of God; Shadow, and Sound: The Historical Thought of a Sumatran People; and Solo in the New Order: Language and Hierarchy in an Indonesian City (Princeton).

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"Siegel's analysis is convincing. It summoned Sumatran recollections of creating urban modernity through adopting music, clothing, language, and books from European sources, yet perceiving these new elements as effortlessly translated into a new Indonesian cultural world."--Choice