Women and Modernity: Reading the Femme Fatale in Early Twentieth-Century Indies Novels
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This article discusses one major trend among novels of early twentieth-century Indonesia, that is stories of the tragic femme fatale. A close examination of one such novel, Tan Boen Kim’s Riboet or the Venomous Flower, and others like it reveals a curious thematic pattern in which women are cautioned against embracing new practices and ways of life such as obtaining education and taking up a profession. This article argues that these novels reflect a certain social symptom as they convey profound critiques of women in the age of modernity.
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Indonesia
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Vol. 92
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Page range: 157-182
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2011-10
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Cornell University Southeast Asia Program
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