Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. The Fetish of Appearance
6. Chapter One. The "I" of a Lingua Franca 11
7. Chapter Two. What Did Not Happen to Indonesians 38
8. Chapter Three. Fetishizing Appearance, or Is "I" a Criminal? 54
9. Part II. Recognition
10. Chapter Four. Student Hidjau and The Feeling of Freedom 95
11. Chapter Five. Scandal, Women, Authors, and Sino-Malay Nationalism 115
12. Chapter Six. Love Sick, or the Failures of the Fetish and of Translation 134
13. Chapter Seven. The Wish for Hierarchy 161
14. Part III. Revolution
15. Chapter Eight. Collaboration and Cautious Rebellion 181
16. Chapter Nine. Revolution 208
17. Epilogue. Pramoedya Ananta Toer's "Flunky + Maid," or Conservative Indonesian, Revolutionary Indonesian, and the Lack of Indonesian Literature 231
18. Notes 255
19. About the Author 276