Letters Of A Javanese Princess
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One of the most remarkable voices to emerge from colonial Southeast Asia, Raden Adjeng Kartini wrote with a luminous urgency that transcended the confines of her gilded cage — a Javanese aristocratic compound at the turn of the twentieth century — to reach the hearts and minds of readers across the world. Letters of a Javanese Princess is a collection of intimate and impassioned correspondence written by Kartini to her Dutch pen friends between 1899 and 1904, chronicling her fierce yearning for education, emancipation, and the modernisation of Javanese women at a time when purdah and polygamy defined her world. With unflinching honesty and remarkable eloquence, she details the crushing paradoxes of her privileged yet deeply constrained existence, arguing passionately for women's rights and social reform within a society bound by tradition and colonial rule. Translated from the Dutch by Agnes Louise Symmers, edited by Hildred Geertz, and prefaced by Eleanor Roosevelt, this edition stands as a testament to the enduring power of Kartini's vision. Her prose is at once tender and incendiary — the letters of a young woman who understood that ideas, carefully tended, could outlive empires. Kartini died in 1904 at just twenty-five, but her words ignited a feminist and nationalist movement that continues to resonate in Indonesia to this day. For any reader who has ever believed in the transformative power of education and the indomitable nature of the human spirit, this volume presents an encounter that will not soon be forgotten.
Author: Raden Adjeng Kartini
Format: Paperback
Genre: Asian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
One of the most remarkable voices to emerge from colonial Southeast Asia, Raden Adjeng Kartini wrote with a luminous urgency that transcended the confines of her gilded cage — a Javanese aristocratic compound at the turn of the twentieth century — to reach the hearts and minds of readers across the world. Letters of a Javanese Princess is a collection of intimate and impassioned correspondence written by Kartini to her Dutch pen friends between 1899 and 1904, chronicling her fierce yearning for education, emancipation, and the modernisation of Javanese women at a time when purdah and polygamy defined her world. With unflinching honesty and remarkable eloquence, she details the crushing paradoxes of her privileged yet deeply constrained existence, arguing passionately for women's rights and social reform within a society bound by tradition and colonial rule. Translated from the Dutch by Agnes Louise Symmers, edited by Hildred Geertz, and prefaced by Eleanor Roosevelt, this edition stands as a testament to the enduring power of Kartini's vision. Her prose is at once tender and incendiary — the letters of a young woman who understood that ideas, carefully tended, could outlive empires. Kartini died in 1904 at just twenty-five, but her words ignited a feminist and nationalist movement that continues to resonate in Indonesia to this day. For any reader who has ever believed in the transformative power of education and the indomitable nature of the human spirit, this volume presents an encounter that will not soon be forgotten.