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oapen-20.500.12657-456142023-06-05T13:08:29Z A Certain Age Mrázek, Rudolf History Dutch people Jakarta Netherlands Sukarno bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJF Asian history 'A Certain Age' is an unconventional, evocative work of history and a moving reflection on memory, modernity, space, time, and the limitations of traditional historical narratives. Rudolf Mrázek visited Indonesia throughout the 1990s, recording lengthy interviews with elderly intellectuals in and around Jakarta. With few exceptions, they were part of an urban elite born under colonial rule and educated at Dutch schools. From the early twentieth century, through the late colonial era, the national revolution, and well into independence after 1945, these intellectuals injected their ideas of modernity, progress, and freedom into local and national discussion. When Mrázek began his interviews, he expected to discuss phenomena such as the transition from colonialism to postcolonialism. His interviewees, however, wanted to share more personal recollections. Mrázek illuminates their stories of the past with evocative depictions of their late-twentieth-century surroundings. 2017-03-09 23:55 2020-03-10 03:00:29 2020-04-01T13:50:03Z 2020-04-01T13:50:03Z 2010 book 625230 OCN: 645086948 9780822392682 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/45614 eng application/pdf n/a 625230.pdf Duke University Press Duke University Press 10.26530/oapen_625230 100333 10.26530/oapen_625230 f0d6aaef-4159-4e01-b1ea-a7145b2ab14b b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780822392682 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Duke University Press Durham NC 100333 KU Select 2016 Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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'A Certain Age' is an unconventional, evocative work of history and a moving reflection on memory, modernity, space, time, and the limitations of traditional historical narratives. Rudolf Mrázek visited Indonesia throughout the 1990s, recording lengthy interviews with elderly intellectuals in and around Jakarta. With few exceptions, they were part of an urban elite born under colonial rule and educated at Dutch schools. From the early twentieth century, through the late colonial era, the national revolution, and well into independence after 1945, these intellectuals injected their ideas of modernity, progress, and freedom into local and national discussion.
When Mrázek began his interviews, he expected to discuss phenomena such as the transition from colonialism to postcolonialism. His interviewees, however, wanted to share more personal recollections. Mrázek illuminates their stories of the past with evocative depictions of their late-twentieth-century surroundings.
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