Interkom in Indonesia: Not Quite an Imagined Community

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS 5
3. Introduction 7
4. The Construction of National Heroes and / or Heroines 13
5. Laughing at Leviathan: John, Dutch New Guinea, and the Ridiculousness of Colonial Rule 27
6. A New Regime of Order: The Origin of Modern Surveillance Politics in Indonesia 47
7. The Specter of Coincidence 75
8. Images of Colonial Cities in Early Indonesian Novels 91
9. Hải Vân, The Storm, and Vietnamese Communism in the Inter-war Imagination 125
10. Move Over, Madonna: Luang Wichit Wathakan's Huang Rak Haew Luk 145
11. Foreignness and Vengeance: On Rizal's El Filibusterismo 165
12. The Question of Foreigners: Bai Ren's Nanyang Piaoliuji and the Re/making of Chinese and Philippine Nationness 189
13. The Marginalization of the Indians in Malaysia: Contesting Explanations and the Search for Alternatives 223
14. De-Othering Jek Communists: Rewriting Thai History from the Viewpoint of the Ethno-Ideological Other 245
15. Pag-ibig, Pagtatalik at Pakikibaka: Love and Sex inside the Communist Party of the Philippines 263
16. The Dialectics of "EDSA Dos": Urban Space, Collective Memory, and the Spectacle of Compromise 283
17. Pilkades: Democracy, Village Elections, and Protest in Indonesia 303
18. When Soldiers Kill Civilians: Burma's Crackdown in 1988 in Comparative Perspective 331
19. Other Schools, Other Pilgrimages, Other Dreams: The Making and Unmaking of Jihad in Southeast Asia 347
20. Interkom in Indonesia: Not Quite an Imagined Community 383
21. Contributors 397