Professor E. Rafferty
6313 Social Science Bldg
Office hours - Tues & Thurs. 2:30- 3:30 or by appointment

Course Description: This course offers students an opportunity to read literature written by those living in the Netherlands Indies during the late colonial period (ca. 1900-1945). A variety of authors will be read including those newly arrived Dutch, long-term residents of the Indies, local residents with mixed heritage as well as local residents without European parentage. Through an examination of both the literature and articles describing the social, political, and linguistic context of the period, the student will be asked to distinguish different points of view among the Dutch and local writers. Students will discover and explore a diverse set of cultural perspectives in the Netherlands Indies in the late colonial period.
Assignments & Grading
Participation in class discussions 10
4 response papers (7 points each) 28
Two oral & written presentations (15 points each) 30
Final paper 32
Total 100%

Course Materials
Most course materials are on e-reserve in the College Library.
Telling Lives, Telling History is available in the University Bookstore and Forever a Stranger will be in shortly. Other novels, which are out of print, will be available at Bob's Copy Shop in Randall Tower.

SYLLABUS
Week 1 - September 2
Introductory Readings
" Introductions and explanation of the syllabus
" John Smail, "Indonesia" In: In Search of Southeast Asia, pp. 292-311.
Week 3 - September 7 & 9
Theoretical Background
" Jose Ortega y Gasset, "The Difficulty of Reading", Diogenes 28, (Winter 1959) pp. 1-17.
" H.M.J. Maier - "From Heteroglossia to Polyglossia: The Creation of Malay and Dutch in the Indies," In: Indonesia no 56 (Oct.) 1993, p 37-65.
" E. Said, 1978, "Orientalism," In: Orientalism.
" A. Stoler, 1989, "Rethinking Colonial Categories: European Communities and the Boundaries of Rule, In: Comparative Studies in Society and History vo. 31, no. 1 (Jan 1989). pp. 134-161.
" Video - Conversations in Literature ID2.134

Week 3 - September 14 & 16
The Elite of Java & Kartini's Letters
" Kartini letters, In: Letters of a Javanese Princess, 1-67.
" C. W. Watson, The Metamorphosis of a Javanese Aristocrat: The Memoirs of Pangeran Achmad Djajadiningrat, In: Text/Politics in Island Southeast Asia, ed. D.M. Roskies, Ohio U. Center for International Studies, 1993. pp. 157. 189.
" Pangeran Ario Hadiningrat: A Javanese Pioneer (1847-1915) , In: Regents, Reformers and Revolutionaries: Indonesian Voices of Colonial Days, trans. ed. & annotated by Greta O. Wilson, U. Hawaii Press, 1978, pp. 3-15.

1. Reaction Paper 1 - Write a 1-2 page double spaced paper comparing the views of Kartini, Djajadiningrat, & Hadiningrat commenting on reasons for each's particular cultural perspective. Due on 21 Sept.

Week 4 & 5 - September 21 & 23 & 28
More Theoretical Perspectives
" Sarup, Madan, 1994, "Home and Identity" In: Travellers' Tales: Narratives of Home and Displacement, eds. G. Robertson et al, p. 93-104.
" Rushdie, Salman, Imaginary Homelands" In: Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991, p. 9-21.
" Rosaldo, Renato, 1993, "Border Crossings" In: Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis, p. 196-217.

Eurasian author about a local concubine
" G. Francis, Nyai Dasima
" J. Gelman Taylor, "Images of Indonesia in film: Race and gender in a colonial setting," In: Fantasizing the Feminine, pp. 225-248.
" Contemporary version of Nyai Dasima (to be handed out)

2. Reaction Paper 2 - Write a 1-2 page paper exploring G. Francis' audience and cultural messages carried by his version of Nyai Dasima. Describe two to three themes. Due on 28 Sept.

Week 5 & 6 - September 30, Oct 5 & 7
Daum: A Dutch author of the 1890s
" P.A. Daum, 1999, Ups and Downs of Life in the Indies. (available at Bob's copy shop in Randall Tower)
" P.A. Daum, In: Rob Nieuwenhuys, 1999, Mirror of the Indies, pp. 111-122.

3. Reaction Paper 3 - Using the main characters [most importantly - Mr. & Mrs. Uhlstra, Mr. & Mrs. Lugtens, Rose and Geber] describe how Daum uses the development of characters to develop themes and to describe differing cultural worlds that co-existed in the "Dutch" world of the Netherlands Indies in the late 19th century. Due Oct. 12.
Week 7 - October 12 & 14
A Revolutionary journalist of the 1920s
" Mas Marco Kartodikromo, Early Indonesian Literature, "Black Semarang," "Corrupted Life of a Big City," and "Images of Extravagance."

4. Begin student-lead discussions consisting of an oral presentation and a 2-3 page essay to be handed at the class meeting following the presentation. The discussion of Mas Marco's short stories should highlight the use of symbols and metaphors to develop themes and express social and political messages.

Week 8 & 9 - October 19 & 21; 26 & 28
Growing up in village Sumatra in the early 20th century
" Susan Rodgers, 1995, Introduction: "Imagining Modern Indonesia via Autobiography," In: Telling Lives, Telling History.
" Muhamad Radjab, "Village Childhood," In Telling Lives Telling History. Pp. 149-320.
Three student presentations on "Village Childhood".
Student presentations continue until all are complete.

Week 10 - November 2 & 4
Immigrant Dutch perspectives
" Augusta De Wit - Introduction & "The Three Women in the Sacred Grove," In Insulinde, ed. C.N. Moore, U. Hawaii Press, 1978. pp. 76-99.
" Augusta De Wit - "A Native of Java," In: Island India, 1923.

A one-page proposal for final paper due November 4.

Week 11 - November 9 & 11
" Willem Walraven, "The Clan," & "Borderline", In: Fugitive Dreams, pp. 284-321.
" Willem Walraven: A Colonial Tragedy, In: Mirror of the Indies, Rob Nieuwenhuys, 1999.

Week 12 - November 16 & 18
" H.J. Friedericy -"The Counselor," In: Two Tales of the East Indies, pp. 111-173.
" Rob Nieuwenhuys / E, Breton de Nijs, In: Mirror of the Indies, 1999.

Week 13 & 14 - November 23 & Thanksgiving break, Nov 30 & Dec. 2
" Hella Haasse, 1996, "Forever a Stranger" and "An Affair (Egbert's Story),"
In: Forever a Stranger.

Week 15 & 16 - December 9, 11 & 14
Perspectives of local elite of Batavia in the 1930s
" A. Pane, 1938, Shackles.

A Final Paper of 10 double-spaced pages for undergraduates and 15 for graduates is due on Monday Dec. 20, 2004. A handout with guidelines and suggested topics for the paper will be handed out later in the semester.