Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, March 1st, 1998
By TINEKE HELLWIG. Windsor: Netherlandic Press, 1994. Pp. 103. Bibliography, Glossary, Index.
In Adjustment and Discontent, Tineke Hellwig introduces turn-of-the-century literature in Dutch and Malay in which the chief characters are women and the chief themes are their entanglements in multi-racial relationships. Dutch, Eurasian and Indonesian love, hate and scheme. Their illicit liaisons ruin the happiness and fortunes of respectable families. Tineke Hellwig's summaries of the plots of eleven authors and analysis of the themes are preceded by a brief historical setting. She takes the Dutc...
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