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Folio: Kanalisering van een nationaal narcisme (Channelling a national narcissism)

Folio: Channelling a national narcissism (Blokker column on Indies books)

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Jan Blokker column in De Volkskrant (12 Aug 1995) reviewing Dutch books on the Indies and the colonial past. Mrs. S.K. Trimurti appears only as an interviewee quoted in H.C. Beynon's "Verboden voor honden en inlanders", on living with Inggit after Sukarno's 1933 arrest. Gerwani is not mentioned.

Kolom Jan Blokker di De Volkskrant (12 Agustus 1995) yang mengulas buku-buku Belanda tentang Hindia dan masa kolonial. S.K. Trimurti hanya muncul sebagai narasumber wawancara dalam buku H.C. Beynon "Verboden voor honden en inlanders", tentang tinggal bersama Inggit setelah Sukarno ditangkap 1933. Gerwani tidak disebut.

People

Jan BlokkerS.K. TrimurtiInggit GarnasihSukarnoPoncke PrincenH.C. Beynon

Places

NetherlandsIndonesiaRawagede

Topics

historiographyNetherlandsmemory, testimony and justicebiography

Tags

commentarycolonial rulereviewinterview

Details

Date
1995-08-12
Creator
De Volkskrant
Publication
De Volkskrant
Document type
newspaper article (newspaper or periodical article/page (text transcription/OCR))
Language
Dutch
Perspective
Western mainstream press
Source role
primary
Country
Netherlands
Period
1980–1998
Source archive
Delpher (KB, Netherlands) · source link
Access
open access (Delpher) Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
File
01 Primary Sources/1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals/Dutch press (1945-2000) - articles on Gerwis, Gerwani and members (Delpher)/De Volkskrant (1995-08-12) - Folio Kanalisering van een nationaal narcisme door Jan Blokker Eindredactie han [Delpher ABCDDD-010870939-a0772].txt
OCR / text
Fair (0.804) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: yes
Collection
01 Primary Sources › 1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals › Dutch press (1945-2000) - articles on Gerwis, Gerwani and members (Delpher)
Summary basis
full text read; OCR partly damaged

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