Race, Reason, and Emotion:Reading Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s House of Glass
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In the early 20th-century Dutch East Indies, through domestic espionage and scholarly research, the colonial state produced strategic knowledge about its Native subjects. The state used such knowledge to keep the Natives under control. House of Glass, the fourth and last novel in Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s “Buru Quartet,” offers a fictionalized historical account of how the domestic spy work and scholarly studies responded to the emergence of Native nationalist movement. This paper examines one product of the colonial state’s knowledge- production activities: the colonial discourse on Natives revolving around the notions of race, reason, and emotion. A critical reading of this discourse suggests that it contains not merely racial prejudices on the part of European colonial masters against Natives but also elements of truth about them. Pramoedya seems to have used the narrator Jacques Pangemanann to draw attention to the troubling weaknesses he saw in Indonesians, both in the colonial era and under the New Order.
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In the early 20th-century Dutch East Indies, through domestic espionage and scholarly research, the colonial state produced strategic knowledge about its Native subjects. The state used such knowledge to keep the Natives under control. House of Glass, the fourth and last novel in Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s “Buru Quartet,” offers a fictionalized historical account of how the domestic spy work and scholarly studies responded to the emergence of Native nationalist movement. This paper examines one product of the colonial state’s knowledge- production activities: the colonial discourse on Natives revolving around the notions of race, reason, and emotion. A critical reading of this discourse suggests that it contains not merely racial prejudices on the part of European colonial masters against Natives but also elements of truth about them. Pramoedya seems to have used the narrator Jacques Pangemanann to draw attention to the troubling weaknesses he saw in Indonesians, both in the colonial era and under the New Order.
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