Between a Rock and a Hard Place? Interstitial Female Subjectivity in between Colonialism and Patriachy: Women in Pramoedya Ananta Toer's Buru Tetralogy

Abstract

This essay explores how the portrayal of female characters in Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s Buru tetralogy reveals the ideologies of misogyny or patriarchy that operated in the hierarchical arrangement of both colonial and Javanese societies in the East Indies at the turn of the twentieth century.