Coughing Heavily: Two Interviews with Professor Resink in his Home at Gondangdia Lama 48a, Jakarta, on July 17 and July 25, 1997

Page range: 137-164Interview with Prof. Gertrudes Johan Resink, 1997

Bridges of Hope: Senior Citizens' Memories

Page range: 37-5

A Certain Age

'A Certain Age' is an unconventional, evocative work of history and a moving reflection on memory, modernity, space, time, and the limitations of traditional historical narratives. Rudolf Mrázek visited Indonesia throughout the 1990s, recording lengthy interviews with elderly intellectuals in and around Jakarta. With few exceptions, they were part of an urban elite born under colonial rule and educated at Dutch schools. From the early twentieth century, through the late colonial era, the national revolution, and well into independence after 1945, these intellectuals injected their ideas of modernity, progress, and freedom into local and national discussion. When Mrázek began his interviews, he expected to discuss phenomena such as the transition from colonialism to postcolonialism. His interviewees, however, wanted to share more personal recollections. Mrázek illuminates their stories of the past with evocative depictions of their late-twentieth-century surroundings

Only the Deaf Hear Well

Page range: 51-9

Tan Malaka: A Political Personality's Structure of Experience

Page range: 1-4

Healing in Digoel

Page range: 47-7

Glass House, Takashi Shiraishi, and Indonesian Studies in Motion: A Review

Page range: 169-17

Review of Beauty Is a Wound: A Novel

Page range: 145-15

A Certain Age

'A Certain Age' is an unconventional, evocative work of history and a moving reflection on memory, modernity, space, time, and the limitations of traditional historical narratives. Rudolf Mrázek visited Indonesia throughout the 1990s, recording lengthy interviews with elderly intellectuals in and around Jakarta. With few exceptions, they were part of an urban elite born under colonial rule and educated at Dutch schools. From the early twentieth century, through the late colonial era, the national revolution, and well into independence after 1945, these intellectuals injected their ideas of modernity, progress, and freedom into local and national discussion. When Mrázek began his interviews, he expected to discuss phenomena such as the transition from colonialism to postcolonialism. His interviewees, however, wanted to share more personal recollections. Mrázek illuminates their stories of the past with evocative depictions of their late-twentieth-century surroundings

Review of A Certain Age: Colonial Jakarta through the Memories of its Intellectuals

Page range: 193-19