Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Note on Conventions xxi
6. Selected Timeline of Indies and Indonesian Histories xxiii
7. Introduction: The Afterwardsness of History 1
8. Chapter 1. Desire, Phantoms, and Commodities: Maria Dermoût’s Colonial Critique 17
9. Chapter 2. At Home and Not at Home in Empire: Transnational Phantasies of Colonial Modernity 50
10. Chapter 3. A Neurotic Family Romance of Modernity and the National Form 88
11. Chapter 4. The End of the Nationalist Romance 120
12. Chapter 5. Trauma and Its Doubles in Postcolonial Masculinity 159
13. Chapter 6. Masculinist Trauma and Feminist Melancholia 176
14. Afterword: Trauma, Translation, and a Critical Path 202
15. Notes 215
16. Glossary 275
17. Selected Bibliography 281
18. Index 305
19. About the Author 319