Stille kracht en groepsgrenzen in Nederlands-Indië; een beeld vanuit de Indische bellettrie

Samenvatting

During the final seventy-five years of East Indian colonial society, the relationships between the main population groups changed considerably, as can be seen in the treatment of male-female relationships across racial boundaries in the fiction of this period. The emergence of goena-goena (a type of hidden force) as a last resort for mixed-race women to attract European men, depicted in several stories, is best explained in terms of the difficult position of the mixed-race civil servant class following the colonial reorganization & the "ethical policy" introduced by the Netherlands in 1901. 36 References. Modified HA