Creole identity in postcolonial Indonesia / Jacqueline Knörr.
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Creole identity in postcolonial Indonesia / Jacqueline Knörr.
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Publication Date(s):
2014
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New York : Berghahn Books, 2014. ©2014
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1 online resource (ix, 225 pages) : illustrations
Abstract:
Contributing to identity formation in ethnically and religiously diverse postcolonial societies, this book examines the role played by creole identity in Indonesia, and in particular its capital, Jakarta. While, on the one hand, it facilitates transethnic integration and promotes a specifically postcolonial sense of common nationhood due to its heterogeneous origins, creole groups of people are often perceived ambivalently in the wake of colonialism and its demise, on the other. In this book, Jacqueline Knörr analyzes the social, historical, and political contexts of creoleness both at the.
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Introduction -- Creole identity in postcolonial context -- Jakarta, Batavia, Betawi -- Orang Betawi versus Orang Jakarta -- Suku bangsa Betawi : integration and differentiation of ethnic identity -- Betawi versus Peranakan -- Orang Betawi versus Orang Indonesia : the connection between ethnic diversity and national unity -- Betawi politics of identity and difference -- Conclusion. Towards an open end.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-217) and index.
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