Women and Modernity: Reading the Femme Fatale in Early Twentieth-Century Indies Novels
| dc.contributor.author | Chandra, Elizabeth | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-11-10T14:37:49Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-11-10T14:37:49Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011-10 | |
| dc.description | Page range: 157-182 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1813/54555 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Cornell University Southeast Asia Program | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Indonesia | |
| dc.title | Women and Modernity: Reading the Femme Fatale in Early Twentieth-Century Indies Novels | |
| dc.type | article | |
| schema.issueNumber | Vol. 92 |
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