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Women and Modernity: Reading the Femme Fatale in Early Twentieth-Century Indies Novels

dc.contributor.authorChandra, Elizabeth
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-10T14:37:49Z
dc.date.available2017-11-10T14:37:49Z
dc.date.issued2011-10
dc.descriptionPage range: 157-182
dc.description.abstractThis 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.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/54555
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherCornell University Southeast Asia Program
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIndonesia
dc.titleWomen and Modernity: Reading the Femme Fatale in Early Twentieth-Century Indies Novels
dc.typearticle
schema.issueNumberVol. 92

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