Pacific Affairs, March 22nd, 1996
Those who have benefitted from Tineke Hellwig's analyses of images of women in Indonesian literature (In the Shadow of Change, Berkeley: University of California Centers for South and Southeast Asian Studies, 1994) will certainly want to obtain a copy a Adjustment and Discontent, for it extends her work further back into the colonial period, covering fiction by Dutch, Indo (Eurasian mestizo), and Chinese writers spanning the period 1895-1925. This volume is of value for several reasons. It marks a continuation of Hellwig's pioneering exploration into the vitally important issue of literary re...
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